Four members of the police and three civilians were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up near a security force in a market in Sheikh Zuwaid in north Sinai on Tuesday while the Islamic state claimed responsibility for the attack, the interior ministry said.
The ministry said the attacker was 15 years old, including two officers and a six-year-old child, adding that the attack wounded 26 people.
The sources told the island that a suicide bomber blew himself up in a security force of the police station Sheikh Zwaid during the stop in the vicinity of the popular market Tuesday in the center of the city.
The sources added that the explosion led to the killing of the head of the Investigation Department of Sheikh Zuwaid police and his aide in addition to two other members of the insurance force, and the attack killed a civilian and wounded several others.
The state organization claimed responsibility for the attack, and said in a statement that 15 people were killed or wounded.
The attack was carried out by Abu Hajar al-Masri, who detonated his explosive vest in a police foot patrol, the statement said.
Since 2013, Sinai has been battling security forces and armed groups that have killed hundreds of military and police personnel, while the army says it has killed hundreds of armed elements in ground and air military campaigns.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ordered the armed forces to use "brute force" to impose security in the Sinai within three months, following an attack on a mosque in the Bir al-Abd area, killing more than 300 people on 24 November 2017.