Egypt finds large weapons cache in Sinai mountains (AFP)

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North Sinai authorities found "25 anti-aircraft missiles, 12 anti-personnel and anti-armour grenades, eight mortars, as well as five surface to surface and superficies to air missiles," the official said.

"A large number of gun barrels and large amounts of detonators used for explosives and mines were also form in a mould," the authoritative added.

He said magistrates had received information that arms dealers in the region were extracting explosive corporeal from ammunition left over from the Arab-Israeli wars.

Israel and the United States have again and again accused Egypt of not doing enough to stop ensign armorial smuggling into the Gaza Strip, which has been under the control of Islamist group Hamas for a year. The charges receive been vehemently denied by Cairo.

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