Discarded shoes of victims remain outside Al-Rawda Mosque in Bir al-Abd northern Sinai, Egypt. As the gunfire rang out and the blasts shook the mosque, worshippers screamed and cried out in pain. Al-Rawdah Mosque was in a sleepy village by the same name in Egypt’s troubled northern Sinai, near the small town of Bir al-Abd. “We knew that the mosque was under attack by (militants),” said witness Ebid Salem Mansour recalling the intense gunfire. Islamic militants stepped up their campaign of violence in northern Sinai after the military ousted the elected but divisive Morsi.

Source: Washington Post November 25, 2017 05:22 UTC