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Seven people were killed in a coordinated attack on a Sinai hotel by Islamic State of Iraq and Levant’s (ISIL’s) affiliate in Egypt.

Egypt’s health ministry said on Nov. 25 that two election judges, four policeman and one civilian were killed on Nov. 24 in the attack on the Swiss Inn hotel in the North Sinai provincial capital El-Arish.

Egyptian officials said a suicide bomber for the ISIL affiliate Sinai Province drove a car bomb into the security barrier outside the hotel, allowing at least one other terrorist to enter and go from room to room shooting before blowing himself up.

Sinai Province also claimed responsibility for planting the bomb that downed a Russian airliner on Oct. 31 after it left the south Sinai resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, killing all 224 people on board.

The election judges were helping to oversee the second phase of Egyptian parliamentary elections on Nov. 22-23. It was Egypt’s first legislative vote since Islamist president Mohammed Morsi was overthrown in 2013.

Egypt’s High Elections Committee reported on Nov. 25 that “For the Love of Egypt” pro-government candidates won all 60 seats designated for lists. Most of the 596 seats in parliament are reserved for independent candidates, but nearly all candidates are said to support President Abdul Fatah Sisi.

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