The Egyptian army massed troops and carried out arrests on Friday to quell increasingly deadly Islamist militants in the Sinai Peninsula close to the borders with Gaza and Israel as President Mohammed Mursi headed to the border Rafah crossing.
Egypt also temporarily reopened the Rafah crossing into the Gaza Strip, which was closed after militants attacked troops last Sunday and killed 16 soldiers.
State news agency MENA said six "terrorist elements" were arrested during patrols in the North Sinai province and a security source branded them as Islamist hardliners suspected of belonging to a jihadist group.
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