CAIRO: Egypt’s security forces on Thursday seized a large weapons cache including anti-aircraft missiles and an aircraft bomb, the official MENA news agency reported.
North Sinai security forces found 545 mortars, eight anti-aircraft missiles and a 70-kilogram (around 150-pound) aircraft bomb in a cave in the Sinai mountains, MENA said.
There were no immediate details on the origin or intended destination of the weapons.
Israel has raised concerns that weapons smuggled from Libya, where a revolt against leader Moammar Qaddafi left an abundance of arsenal, were finding their way to the Islamist Hamas-controlled Gaza through Egypt.
Gun-dealers are believed to smuggle the weapons into Gaza through a network of tunnels also used to take food and other contraband into the Palestinian enclave.
The Gaza Strip has been under blockade since 2006, after militants captured an Israeli soldier in a cross-border raid.
