A terror attack most likely with ISIS behind 235 or more worshippers and visitors that were killed and another 109 injured in an attack on a mosque in Egypt’s North Sinai region on Friday, It’s the deadliest attacks ever carried out against civilians in this part of Egypt.
“Why? What for? Who made you do this? What will you get out of this? Why!!!”, these are tweets saying from the region.
After at least two explosions, gunmen who were waiting outside the mosque opened fire at worshipers as they fled Friday prayers, state-owned Ahram Online said.
The attack targeted Al Rawdah mosque, situated in the village of Al Rawdah between Bir Al-Abed and the city of Al-Arish.
Bodies lie on the floor of Bir Al-Abed’s Al Rawdah mosque following a gun and bomb attack Friday.
The gunmen had set up “ambush” locations and opened fire on ambulances as they were transporting wounded worshipers from al-Rawdah toward al-Arish before the arrival of security services, eyewitnesses reported.
The mosque that was attacked is known for being the birthplace of Sheikh Eid al-Jariri, a Sufi cleric considered the founder of Sufism in the Sinai peninsula. Sufism is a mystical branch of Islam that some ultra-orthodox Muslims consider heretical.
The blasts from improvised explosive devices caused considerable damage to the mosque.
