Bombs were detonated at the mosque, and as worshipers fled, they were gunned down by the militants, the authority said. [Egypt struggles to make headway against Sinai militants]Dozens of bodies, covered with blankets or bloodied sheets, lay in rows inside the mosque after the attack. “Our will cannot be broken.”At least 235 people were killed in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula after militants detonated a bomb and shot at worshipers in a mosque on Nov. 24. The militants have also increasingly targeted Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority, as well as Sufi Muslims, considered heretics by the Islamic State. Last year, militants in Egypt claiming affiliation with the Islamic State asserted responsibility for two beheadings near Arish.

Source: Washington Post November 24, 2017 11:53 UTC