CAIRO, Feb 12 (Aswat Masriya) Unidentified gunmen bombed a natural gas line south of Arish City in the Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday morning, security sources said.

This comes after a similar attack that happened on Tuesday and is the fifth time that assailants have bombed the gas line in Sinai since the ouster of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi in July.

Eyewitnesses reported seeing smoke a few meters high as a result of the blast while workers moved to the scene to monitor the situation.

The line was bombed 19 times after Hosni Mubarak stepped down in 2011.