Egypt attack: More than 200 killed in Sinai mosque

[Eugene]

Last edited Fri Nov 24, 2017, 11:23 AM - Edit history (1)

Source: BBC

24 November 2017 Middle East

Militants have launched a bomb and gun attack on a mosque in Egypt's North Sinai province, killing 235 people, state media say.

Witnesses say the al-Rawda mosque in the town of Bir al-Abed, near al-Arish, was targeted during Friday prayers.

It is the deadliest attack of its kind since an Islamist insurgency in the peninsula was stepped up in 2013.

Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has held emergency talks with security officials to decide how to respond.

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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-42110223

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EDIT: Article updated at link

[Roy Rolling]

1. Killing in the Name of God

Perhaps the most stupid of all justifications for organized murder.

[AllyCat]

2. This is terrible. What is the matter with people?

Religion and the fight to prove one imaginary friend is bigger than another are a major driver in these mass murders.

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. Now at least 155 killed

More than 100 people were also wounded in the attack, reports say.

At same link.

[Rustyeye77]

4. Fundies.

[ck4829]

6. Indeed, it will never work amongst our cultured warriors

Who shoot up elementary schools, churches, and concerts... because of "mental illness"

[romanic]

8. I was referring to the typical response

of intervening from Western powers in these hellholes as if democracy will solve centuries-long religious violence. -_-

[Rustyeye77]

11. islamic ?? ...NO, FUNDIES !!

Ive posted this probably 20 times

Fundie attacks... doesn't matter where it happens

Egypt mosque
Iraq - Yazidi victims
New York -West side bike path
Nigerian Mosque
Spain Barcelona
Pakistan Lahore
London Bridge
Afghanistan
Egypt Coptic Christians
Manchester
Paris
Fresno
London
Berlin
Brussels
Nice
SAN Bernadino
9/11
7/7
Orlando
Madrid
Boston
NY/ Atlantic City
Al queda
Germany rape- fest
Paris Charlie hebdo murder-thon
And thousands I can't even remember

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. Egypt mosque attack: death toll raised to 200

At least 200 people have been killed and scores more injured in a bomb and gun assault on a mosque in Egypt’s north Sinai.
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More than 50 ambulances ferried casualties from al-Rawdah mosque in Bir al-Abed, west of the city of Arish, to nearby hospitals. At least 130 people were injured.

A bomb ripped through the mosque as Friday prayers were finishing, then militants in four off-road vehicles approached and opened fire on worshippers, a military source told the Guardian.
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The mosque belongs to a Sufi order – a mystical branch of Islam whose followers are regarded by hardline Islamists as apostates because they revere saints and shrines.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/24/egypt-mosque-attack-kills-dozens-reports

[oberliner]

9. Egypt attack: More than 230 killed in Sinai mosque

"They were shooting at people as they left the mosque," a local resident who had relatives there told Reuters news agency. "They were shooting at the ambulances too."

No group has yet claimed responsibility for what is one of the deadliest militant attacks in modern Egyptian history.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-42110223

[Stuart G]

10. Horrific, Sad..CNN, 235 Killed, 109 injured..link below

http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/24/africa/egypt-sinai-mosque-attack/index.html?adkey=bn

[oberliner]

12. No claim of responsibility yet

Is the assumption that this is ISIS?

[Skittles]

13. ...

[Rustyeye77]

15. And yet...

all the tears wont stop it.

The fundies will continue... and it will when we cant even call it what it is.

[Skittles]

16. agreed

[nitpicker]

14. BBC: now 300 dead

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-42118994