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Militants exchanged shots with an Egyptian coastguard vessel in the Mediterranean Sea on Thursday (July 16), causing it to catch fire, the Egyptian military said in a statement.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack on the coast of northern Sinai, an area bordering Israel and the Gaza Strip.
Such incidents at sea are rare, though Egypt is battling an Islamist insurgency in the region.
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