{"id":5450,"date":"2017-11-24T17:28:23","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T17:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=5450"},"modified":"2017-11-24T17:46:05","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T17:46:05","slug":"more-than-200-killed-in-terrorist-attack-on-egyptian-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/more-than-200-killed-in-terrorist-attack-on-egyptian-mosque\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 200 killed in terrorist attack on Egyptian mosque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>At least 235 people killed and another 109 injured in the attack on a mosque in Egypt&#8217;s North Sinai region<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At least 235\u00a0people were killed on Friday when militants attacked a mosque in Egypt\u2019s North Sinai region\u00a0in one of the deadliest attacks in the country\u2019s modern history.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another 109 people were injured, the official <span style=\"color: #a80000;\"><a style=\"color: #a80000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mena.org.eg\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">MENA news agency<\/a><\/span> said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was the largest single attack targeting Egyptian civilians and the first on a large mosque\u00a0since the militants began their campaign of terror in\u00a02013.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">State media showed images of bloodied victims and bodies covered in blankets inside the Al Rawdah mosque in Bir al-Abed, west of El Arish, the main city in North Sinai.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Around 50 ambulances were transferring victims to hospitals, according to the Ministry of Health. A statement issued by Egypt&#8217;s General Prosecutor Nabil Sadiq put the death toll at 235, with at least 109 others wounded.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Health Ministry official told Al Jazeera TV that \u201cthere were many people inside the mosque \u2014 it\u2019s only a small mosque.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #a80000;\"><a style=\"color: #a80000;\" href=\"http:\/\/english.ahram.org.eg\/NewsContent\/1\/64\/282107\/Egypt\/Politics-\/UPDATE--At-least--worshippers-killed-in-terror-att.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Ahram Online<\/a><\/span> reported that improved explosive devices were detonated at the mosque initially, then gunmen fired at worshippers, including targeting ambulances transferring the injured to hospital.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi declared three days of mourning and called a meeting of security officials after the attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 235 people killed and another 109 injured in the attack on a mosque in Egypt&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44,1],"tags":[214,78,356,113,11],"class_list":["post-5450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","tag-bombing","tag-egypt","tag-middle-east","tag-security","tag-terrorism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/egyptian-mosque.jpg?fit=680%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-1pU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5450"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5455,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5450\/revisions\/5455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}