Militants fired rocket-propelled grenades at two buses packed with Egyptian policemen in Sinai on Monday, killing 24 in the deadliest attack of its kind in years, medical and security sources said.

At least two others were injured when the unknown militants fired on the buses as they headed towards the town of Rafah on the border with the Palestinian Gaza Strip.

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