Egyptian security forces on Thursday arrested 25 terror suspects in the north of the Sinai peninsula. The group is alleged to have been planning violent attacks in the country, ADN-Kronos news agency reported.
According to local security sources, cited by Arab TV network al-Arabiya, 10 of the suspects were detained on Wednesday, while the others were arrested previously.
The suspects are believed to have been involved in the robbery of a jewellery store in Cairo last May in which five people, including the owner, were killed.
The group members are believed to come from the city of Arish on the border of the Gaza Strip and are also accused of planning terror attacks abroad.
One of those arrested is a Palestinian suspected of having direct links with the Al-Qaeda terror network and of having planned attacks on foreign ships as they travelled through the Suez Canal and gas pipelines.
Investigators suspect that several of the accused are also part of the Lebanese Shia group Hezbollah.