One conscript was killed and ten were injured in attacks by gunmen on checkpoints in North Sinai on Tuesday, Egypt's interior ministry said in a statement on its official Facebook page.
Conscript Ahmed al-Sayed died immediately after receiving a bullet to the head and another to the back, the statement said, adding that ten other people were wounded in the gunmen's attack.
Egypt has stepped up security in the area in efforts to capture the perpetrators and bring them to justice.
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