In Wednesday’s speech, marking the birth date of the Prophet Muhammad, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi instructed the Egyptian Armed Forces’ chief of staff to use all available force to restore peace in the battle-weary Sinai Peninsula, setting an explicit deadline of three months. The militants detonated a bomb and opened fire on fleeing worshipers from the mosque’s 12 windows. They used five four-wheel drive vehicles and set fire to seven additional vehicles belonging to local residents. Survivors of the attack testified to the prosecutor, saying that perpetrators sported a military-like attire, some of them were masked while others were not, and they carried a black flag which read: “There is no god but God. Muhammad is the messenger of God.”

Source: Egypt Independent November 29, 2017 11:15 UTC