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State television: Death toll in Egypt mosque attack rises to 235 killed
24 Nov 2017
Update: The death toll in a militant attack on a mosque in Egypt's north Sinai region has risen to 235, Egyptian state television reported, quoting the public prosecutor.
Earlier: CAIRO - Terrorists killed 184 people at a mosque in Egypt's north Sinai region on Friday, detonating a bomb and shooting at fleeing worshippers and ambulances, state media and witnesses said.
It was one of the deadliest attacks in the region's Islamist insurgency. No group claimed immediate responsibility, but since 2014 Egyptian security forces have battled a stubborn Islamic State affiliate in the north of the mainly desert Sinai, where terrorists have killed hundreds of police and soldiers.
State media showed images of bloodied victims and bodies covered in blankets inside the Al Rawdah mosque in Bir al-Abed, west of the city of El Arish.
State television and the official news agency MENA reported that 184 people had been killed. Another 125 were wounded, according to state media.
"They were shooting at people as they left the mosque," a local resident whose relatives were at the scene told Reuters. "They were shooting at the ambulances too."
Arabiya news channel and some local sources said some of the worshippers were sufis who hardliners such as Islamic State regard as apostates because they revere saints and shrines, which for Islamists is tantamount to idolatry.
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, a former armed forces commander who presents himself as a bulwark against Islamist militants, convened an emergency meeting with his defense and interior ministers and intelligence chief soon after the attack, the presidency's Facebook page and state television said.
The government also declared three days of mourning.
Terrorists have mostly targeted security forces in their attacks since bloodshed in the Sinai worsened after 2013 when Sisi, then an armed forces commander, led the overthrow of President Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood.
But jihadists have also targeted local Sinai tribes that are working with the armed forces, branding them traitors for cooperating with the army and police.
In July this year, at least 23 soldiers were killed when suicide car bombs hit two military checkpoints in the Sinai, an attack claimed by Islamic State.
Terrorists have tried to expand beyond the largely barren, Sinai Peninsula into Egypt's heavily populated mainland, hitting Coptic Christian churches and pilgrims.
In May, gunmen attacked a Coptic group traveling to a monastery in southern Egypt, killing 29. (Additional reporting by Mohamed Abdellah; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
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Islam is coming to a crisis, in which violent fanatics will kill every other branch of Islam until there are only two Muslims left in the world, and one of them will behead the other because he's the wrong kind.
It can't happen soon enough.
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The "religion of peace" strikes again . But oh no, it's the white, American, male, Christian gun owner that is the bigger threat – just ask a liberal , they'll tell you so. 😉
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no more sufi dancing for a while.
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Damn, over 200 dead Muslimes? Sad, aint it?
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" Breaking News: Death toll in Egypt Mosque tops 235"
Good.
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More dead MUSLIMS = MAGA !
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Personally I dont like this at all. My daughter lives in Cairo , Egypt. She does not seem too concerned by I am. At least this time it was Muzzies killing Muzzies. They do kill Christians and she goes to a church north of Cairo . I hate the fact that she is there. She teaches english there in an American school. Most are Egyptians. She hates it there and says the people are nuts. Women hate men and are rude to them. She found out very fast a woman does not so much as look at a muzzlim man there. They are short tempered and they will clog up a street just to start punching each other. Never seen anything like it she said.
But the fruits of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness,faithfulness, Gentleness and self control. Against such things there is no law. Galations 5: 22&23
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