More than 20 people have been killed and 36 injured following attacks on police and military targets in the Sinai Peninsula.

Egyptian state TV say wide-ranging attacks involving a car bomb and mortar rounds struck the Northern Sinai provincial capital el-Arish, the nearby town of Sheik Zuwayid and the town of Rafah bordering Gaza.

An office of Egypt's state newspaper al Ahram has also been destroyed in the attack.

Originally published 20.37