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Manhunt ends as Egypt arrests two suspected of plotting terror attack
By News Agencies
Tags: Terrorism, Egypt, Sinai

Egyptian security forces on Sunday apprehended two Sudanese men suspected of planning to use a truck laden with explosives to attack tourist targets in the Sinai peninsula.

The Egyptian daily Al-Ahram has reported that the two have been taken for questioning and security forces are currently on the hunt for an additional car bomb.

Police, who already run security checkpoints on Sinai's main roads, set up additional roadblocks Saturday on tracks and back roads to search for the men, thought to have entered Egypt through its southern border with Sudan.
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"The police distributed notices to security departments in Sinai and Suez Canal provinces describing a small truck suspected of carrying quantities of explosives," one security source said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Police believed the two men were in the truck and were "resolved to carry out terror attacks against tourist establishments in Sinai," the source said.

Egyptian police were also searching all private cars in the border area between north and south Sinai, security sources said.

Islamist militants carried out major bomb attacks on tourist areas in Sinai between 2004 and 2006. Egypt blamed those attacks on a group of Bedouin with militant views, and there has been no evidence of foreign involvement
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