CAIRO, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian security forces killed on Monday a suicide bomber who attempted to blow himself up at a security checkpoint in North Sinai Province northeast of the capital Cairo, official MENA news agency reported.
"The suicide bomber tried to blow himself up as he approached a security checkpoint south of Arish City of North Sinai, but the security forces opened fire and killed him," MENA quoted unnamed security sources as saying.
The forces found an explosive belt in the dead man's possession, the report said.
Egypt has been suffering terrorist activities that killed hundreds of policemen, soldiers and civilians following the popular-backed military ouster of former Islamist President Mohamed Morsi in early July 2013.
Most of the terror attacks in Egypt were claimed by a Sinai-based group loyal to the Islamic State regional terrorist group.
The Egyptian security forces killed hundreds of terrorists and arrested thousands of suspects during the country's anti-terror war declared by Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, the army chief then, following Morsi's ouster.
