Blast outside peacekeeping base in Egypt
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CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Two suicide bombers on foot struck just outside a multinational peacekeeping forces base just south of the Rafa border crossing to Gaza on Wednesday.
At least one New Zealander and one Norwegian attached to the multinational force as well as two Egyptian policemen were wounded, security officials and Egypt's official news agency reported.
The attackers hit just two days after a triple bombing that killed 24 at Egypt's Sinai resort city of Dahah on the Gulf of Aqaba.
A spokesman for the Multinational Force and Observers in Cairo refused to immediately comment on the blast.
The force's biggest contingent is U.S. soldiers, according to the group's web site -- although it also has sizeable Canadian contingent.
The peacekeeping force was set up as part of the 1979 peace treaty between Israel that led to Israel's withdrawal from the Sinai. It is partially paid for by the U.S. and has U.S. advisers and soldiers attached to it -- in addition to soldiers from several other nations, including Canada.
The blast hit outside the air base where the multinational force is headquartered in the northern part of the Sinai Peninsula, 10 miles from the Israeli border near Rafah.
The Sinai -- Egypt's desert peninsula that abuts Israel and separates the Mediterranean from the Red Sea -- has been wracked by a series of Islamic extremist bombings in the last year and a half.
The multinational force also has a base in southern Sinai.
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