{"id":36356,"date":"2017-11-24T17:20:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T17:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/egypt-attack-more-than-200-killed-in-sinai-mosque\/"},"modified":"2017-11-25T09:03:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-25T09:03:37","slug":"egypt-attack-more-than-200-killed-in-sinai-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/egypt-attack-more-than-200-killed-in-sinai-mosque\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt attack: More than 200 killed in Sinai mosque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Witnesses say the al-Rawda mosque in the town of Bir al-Abed, near al-Arish, was targeted during Friday prayers.<\/p>\n<p>It is the deadliest attack of its kind since an Islamist insurgency in the peninsula was stepped up in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has held emergency talks with security officials to decide how to respond.<\/p>\n<p>Local police said gunmen arrived in four off-road vehicles before opening fire on worshippers, AP reported.<\/p>\n<p>Pictures from the scene show rows of bloodied victims inside the mosque. At least 130 people were wounded, reports say.<\/p>\n<p>Locals are also quoted as saying that followers of Sufism, or Islamic mysticism, regularly gathered at the mosque.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-22858 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mosque.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Militants have launched a bomb and gun attack on a mosque in Egypt&#8217;s North Sinai province, killing 235 people, state media say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36356"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36356"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}