CAIRO: Attackers killed at least 235 worshippers Friday in a bomb and gun assault on a packed mosque in Egypt’s restive North Sinai province, in the country’s deadliest attack in recent memory. A bomb explosion ripped through the Rawda mosque, roughly 40 kilometres (25 miles) west of the North Sinai capital of El-Arish, before gunmen opened fire on the Sufi worshippers gathered there for weekly Friday prayers, officials said. Witnesses said the assailants surrounded the mosque with all-terrain vehicles and then planted a bomb outside. Between ten and 20 armed attackers “entered the mosque, killing more people than they injured,” Magdy Rizk, who was wounded in the attack, told AFP. The victims of Friday’s attack included civilians and conscripts praying at the mosque.

Source: New Strait Times November 24, 2017 22:18 UTC