Reuters, quoting an unnamed army source, said the three had “opened fire with machine guns on a ship passing through the Suez Canal”.
During Saturday’s unsuccessful attack the 10,050-teu Cosco Asia (built 2007) came under fire in a northern section of the canal.
“There was an attempt to disrupt security in an area called el-Qantara as they fired at a ship in an attempt to halt traffic on the waterway,” the source is quoted as saying.
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