Militants killed 235 people at a mosque in Egypt’s north Sinai region on Friday, detonating a bomb and shooting at fleeing worshippers and ambulances, the state television reported, quoting the public prosecutor. State television and the official news agency MENA reported that 235 people had been killed. “They were shooting at people as they left the mosque,” a local resident whose relatives were at the scene told Reuters. 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.

Source: Hindustan Times November 24, 2017 11:51 UTC