An Egyptian policeman was shot dead and two colleagues were wounded in attacks in the restive Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday, security officials said, a day after a bomb killed 11 policemen.

An Egyptian policeman was shot dead and two colleagues were wounded in attacks in the restive Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday, security officials said, a day after a bomb killed 11 policemen.

Assailants in a car gunned down a police sergeant in the North Sinai town of El-Arish, the officials said.

Two policemen were wounded later in a roadside bombing that targeted their armored vehicle near the town, officials added.

The attacks came a day after the deadliest ambush of policemen in months, when a roadside bomb that exploded near an armored police vehicle killed an officer and 10 conscripts.