Four persons have been confirmed dead and some other 12 wounded as a result of an attack at a police checkpoint in Ismailia, Egypt.
Persons that have been confirmed dead included three police officers and an unidentified person, as confirmed from hospital document obtained by The Associated Press news agency showed.
Most of the other wounded individuals are recruits and have been taken to hospital.
The incident occurred on Friday afternoon on the western side of the Suez Canal.