Egyptian security agencies on Monday found a large amount of highly explosive remnants of previous wars in al-Gurah in north Sinai, the official MENA news agency reported.

The explosives, hidden in two big bags, included 300 kilogram of TNT, five hand grenades and 360 bullets, said the report.

They were buried in sands in al-Gurah, some 30 km southeast of al-Arish on the Mediterranean coast of the Sinai peninsula, which was very close to the border of Egypt and the Gaza Strip of the Palestinian territories.

The explosives were collected and moved to a desert area in order to detonate them.

North Sinai was hit by two suicide bombings on April 26 near a base of the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) in al-Gurah, which killed nobody but the two bombers themselves.

The MFO is an independent peacekeeping mission created as a result of the 1978 Camp David Accords and the 1979 peace treaty between Egypt and Israel.

The al-Gurah bombing came in the wake of a triple suicide-bombing attack in the popular Red Sea resort of Dahab on April 24, which killed 20 people and injured some 90 others.

(Xinhua News Agency July 4, 2006)