Masked men burn Saudi consulate cars in Egypt

CAIRO: Masked men set fire to two cars belonging to the consulate of Saudi Arabia in the Egyptian city of Suez on Friday morning, local security sources and the state news agency reported.
Security sources told Reuters at least four men threw crude fire bombs at the vehicles. State news agency MENA said the cars were parked in a lot in Suez’s Arbaeen district.
Major General Tareq Al-Gazar, director of security in the city, said authorities were working to identify the attackers.
The Saudi embassy in Cairo declined to comment.
Saudi Arabia, UAE and Kuwait have supported Egypt with large-scale aid in cash and petroleum products.
Security sources, meanwhile, said two attacks in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula killed at least 28 security personnel.
More than 25 people died in the first attack in the Al-Kharouba area northwest of Al-Arish, near the Gaza Strip, the sources said. Medical sources expected the toll to increase because some of the wounded were in a critical condition.
The car bomb attack targeted two armoured vehicles stopped at a checkpoint near an army installation, the sources said. One Sinai-based official said the attack was by rocket-propelled grenade. More than 25 people were wounded.
Hours later, gunmen opened fire on a checkpoint in Al-Arish, killing three members of the security forces, officials said.
The wounded and dead were transported by military helicopters to Cairo, state news agency MENA reported.