{"id":11256,"date":"2017-11-26T12:10:51","date_gmt":"2017-11-26T12:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=11256"},"modified":"2017-11-26T12:10:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-26T12:10:51","slug":"toll-climbs-to-305-in-sinai-mosque-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/toll-climbs-to-305-in-sinai-mosque-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Toll climbs to 305 in Sinai mosque attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cairo,<br \/>\nThe death toll from the deadliest terror attack on Muslim worshippers at a mosque in Egypt\u2019s restive North Sinai region has risen to 305, the state prosecution said today.<\/p>\n<p>Among the deceased are 27 children, Egypt\u2019s General Prosecutor Nabil Sadek said in a statement. Sadek said 128 people were injured in the attack, the deadliest terror attack in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Heavily-armed terrorists bombed al-Rowda mosque in Al- Arish city during the Friday prayers. The number of terrorists involved in the attack vary from 25 to 30, the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The terrorists used five vehicles in the attack and torched seven vehicles owned by worshippers, the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor said according to the injured people, some of the terrorists were masked and others were not and all of them were dressed in military-like outfits.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, gunmen who attacked a mosque on Friday in Egypt&#8217;s North Sinai brandished an Islamic State flag as they opened fire through doorways and windows, killing more than 300 worshippers, including two dozen children, officials said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>No group has claimed responsibility, but Egyptian forces are battling a stubborn Islamic State affiliate in the region, one of the surviving branches of the militant group after it suffered defeats by US-backed forces in Iraq and Syria.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cairo, The death toll from the deadliest terror attack on Muslim worshippers at a mosque in Egypt\u2019s restive North Sinai region has risen to 305, the state prosecution said today. Among the deceased are 27 children, Egypt\u2019s General Prosecutor Nabil Sadek said in a statement. Sadek said 128 people were injured in the attack, the [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11257,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11258,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11256\/revisions\/11258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}