Cairo — Smugglers killed 21 soldiers in an attack on a military checkpoint in New Valley's Farafra Oasis on Saturday evening, an Armed Forces statement said.
The statement described the attack, which occurred near the Egyptian-Libyan borders, as "terrorist".
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