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Dozens of lives have been saved thanks to a fearless tank driver who drove over a car moments before it exploded.
The car bomb went off at a security checkpoint in the Sinai Peninsula on Monday and seven people were killed.
However, it is believed the death toll could have been significantly higher if the tank was not used as a crushing tool.
Inside the car there were four gunmen and 200lbs of explosives, a spokesman for the Egyptian army said.
The tank managed to drive away and the victims were civilians standing close to the scene.
The military said it intercepted the vehicle at a checkpoint near the city of Arish, the capital of North Sinai province, and tried to contain the expected blast by running over the car with a tank.
A spokesman claimed that up to 50 lives had been saved. They added: ‘The armed forces reiterates that such terrorist acts only strengthen our determination to continue to eradicate this terrorism in our beloved Sinai from the roots.
‘The armed forces will continue to sacrifice all that is precious, our sons’ lives, in order to preserve and protect this nation and its great people.’
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack. Four gunmen were inside the vehicle, the army said.
An insurgency in Egypt’s Sinai region has gained pace since the army toppled President Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s oldest Islamist movement, following mass protests against his rule in mid-2013.
