A roadside bomb exploded in the Sinai peninsula injuring two Canadian members of the international peace keeping force there. The force is there to monitor the 1979 peace deal between Egypt and Israel that gave the area back to Egypt after Israel captured it during the 1967 Six Day War.
Sinai has been a tense area of late. Egyptian authorities are still searching for suspects connected with the July 23 bombings at Sharm el-Sheik that killed at least 64 people. In addition, Egyptian forces are helping to keep order on the Sinai-Gaza border as Israel begins its unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.
North Sinai Governor Ahmed Abdel Hamid said the blast was caused by a natural gas canister. A second canister was found near the first one but it failed to go off.
Abdel Hamid told Egyptian state-run television that the blast was designed to be a warning more than to cause extensive damage.
'This is a firecracker,' he told the Associated Press, but did not elaborate.
The blast was heard in the Gaza Strip according to Palestinian Authority officials.
The two Canadian soldiers were described as 'very lightly injured.'
No group claimed responsibility for the blast which occurred at approximately 8 AM local time.
