A police conscript died on Monday in Egypt's North Sinai and another one was injured when a mortar shell hit Al-Gora security checkpoint in Sheikh Zuweid.

Eyewitnesses in the governorate also said that a girl was killed in Abou-Al-Arag district, south of Sheikh Zuweid, when a mortar shell fell on her house, Ahram Arabic website reported.  

Earlier on Monday, a roadside bomb struck a bus carrying teachers on the Sheikh Zuweid road, injuring three civilians.