Egypt mosque attack death toll climbs above 300

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Source: CNN

The death toll in a bomb and gun attack on a Sufi mosque in northern Sinai has risen to 305, with 27 children among the dead, Egypt's state prosecutor said Saturday.

Another 128 people were injured, according to a statement from the public prosecutor read out on Egyptian state-run news channel Nile TV.

Between 25 to 30 armed men carried out the assault on the al Rawdah Sufi mosque in Bir al-Abed, the statement said.

The prosecutor also gave more detail about how the brutal attack unfolded. The attackers arrived in five SUVs and were armed with automatic machine guns, the statement said. They took position in front of the mosque and its entrances.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/25/africa/egypt-sinai-mosque-massacre/index.html

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1. ...

[Plucketeer]

2. I'd like to say

I can't imagine that sort of hate. But, sadly, I can. Especially since we're drubbed with such atrocities day after dreadful day.

[Stuart G]

3. I agree, hard to imagine that kind of hate...hate, hate, and more hate.

But this vicious "hate" is not new. very sad...

[Plucketeer]

4. Even mmore crazy

when one considers that the catalyst of this hate is something one can neither see nor touch.