CAIRO, Jan 2 (Aswat Masriya) – Security forces shot at a car which refused to stop at a checkpoint in North Sinai’s al-Arish on Friday, killing one passenger and injuring the other, a police source said.

A speeding car refused to “respond to warnings by members of the checkpoint,” the source said, prompting security forces to open fire on the car.

The passenger who survived the shooting received a wound to the neck, source said. Both passengers were taken to hospital.

Egyptian authorities have intensified security measures in the Sinai Peninsula in reaction to proliferating militant attacks there, particularly since the army's ouster of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi in July 2013, which followed mass protests against his rule.

At least 30 military personnel were killed in a suicide blast which targeted a security checkpoint in Sinai's Sheikh Zuweid on October 24, in the worst militant attack since Mursi's ouster. 

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi declared a three-month state of emergency and a nighttime curfew in parts of the Sinai Peninsula in response to the attack.