Rocket attack kills 2 civilians in Egypt

Two civilians have been killed and one wounded when militants fired rockets at an army checkpoint at El-Arish in Egypt's restive Sinai peninsula.

Two civilians have been killed and one wounded when militants fired rockets at an army checkpoint at El-Arish in Egypt's restive Sinai peninsula, medical and security sources say.

The assailants hit a residential house by mistake, and one of those killed had his legs and head blown off in the attack, hospital sources told AFP on Friday.