US President Donald Trump condemned as “horrible and cowardly” a devastating bomb and gun attack Friday that killed more than 200 people at a mosque in Egypt.
“The world cannot tolerate terrorism, we must defeat them militarily and discredit the extremist ideology that forms the basis of their existence!” he wrote on Twitter.
A bomb explosion tore through the Rawda mosque in Egypt’s restive North Sinai province, and then armed attackers raked fleeing worshipers with gunfire.
Egyptians walk past bodies following a gun and bombing attack at the Rawdah mosque, roughly 40 kilometers west of the North Sinai capital of El-Arish, on November 24, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / STRINGER)
State media put the death toll at 235. The mosque, located roughly 40 kilometers west of the North Sinai capital of el-Arish, was frequented by Sufis.
In his tweet, Trump called it a “horrible and cowardly terrorist attack on innocent and defenseless worshipers in Egypt.”
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