The gunmen mowed down the panicked worshippers as they tried to flee and used congregants' vehicles they had set alight to block routes to the mosque.
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By AFP | November 24, 2017
Attackers killed at least 235 worshippers Friday in a bomb and gun assault on a packed mosque in Egypt's restive North Sinai province, in the country's deadliest attack in recent memory.
A bomb explosion ripped through the Rawda mosque, roughly 40 kilometres (25 miles) west of the North Sinai capital of El-Arish, before gunmen opened fire on the Sufi worshippers gathered there for weekly Friday prayers, officials said.
Witnesses said the assailants surrounded the mosque with all-terrain vehicles and then planted a bomb outside.
The gunmen then mowed down the panicked worshippers as they tried to flee and used congregants' vehicles they had set alight to block routes to the mosque.
Egyptian air force jets later destroyed vehicles used in the attack and "terrorist" locations where weapons and ammunition were stocked, an army spokesman said on Friday.
The planes "destroyed several vehicles used in the attack," Tamer el-Refai said.
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