Militants attack army patrol near Egypt's Ismailia, five killed CAIRO, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) -- Five army men including four soldiers and one officer were killed on Monday when unknown militants attacked a military patrol near Ismailia city, security official told Xinhua. Masked gunmen in a car without licensed plates opened the fire randomly on the soldiers while they were sitting in a checkpoint near Ismailia on the Suez Canal, the source said. The dead were transferred to morgue of the military Galaa hospital. Troops from the armed forces and the police comb the area in search for the perpetrators. The security forces intensified its operations in Sinai Peninsula east of the Suez Canal after toppling the Islamic president Mohamed Morsi to uproot the militants who take from Sinai a haven to stage daily attacks on security premises in the Peninsula killing dozens of soldiers and policemen.