The Egyptian Armed forces say theyve launched air strikes against the militants they believe were responsible for fridays attack on a mosque. At least 235 worshippers were killed. The countrys president has vowed to respond with an iron fist to the attack in the sinai peninsula. A warning, 0rla guerins report contains some distressing images. A rush to save those wounded when a place of worship became a place of carnage. The attackers struck during friday prayers. For egypt, this was a grim new first, a massacre in a mosque. Inside, worshippers lay dead where minutes earlier they had prayed. The mosque was popular with sufi muslims, who revere saints and shrines and are viewed as heretics by islamic extremists. Within hours, a televised address to a nation in shock. President Abdel Fattah Al sisi telling egyptians their anguish would not be in vain and there would be decisive punishment. The sophisticated assault on the mosque was the latest attack by militants based in sinai. The stat
We hear the thoughts of some keen bargain hunters. Just came for black friday, ended up buying a television, headphones, clothes, jewellery, all sorts of things. And ben has the weekend weather. Good morning. A cold, frosty and in places icy start but the reward will be some crisp autumn sunshine. Some wintry showers as well. All the weekend weather details coming up. See you soon, ben. Good morning. First, our main story. Egypts military says it carried out air strikes on those behind the deadliest islamist terror attack in the countrys recent history. 235 people were killed and more than 100 injured after gunmen detonated a bomb and stormed a packed mosque in north sinai yesterday. Egypts air force says it has destroyed vehicles used by the militants, as well as weapons and ammunition at what it described as terrorist locations. Orla guerins report contains some distressing images. A rush to save those wounded when a place of worship became a place of carnage. The attackers struck du
Steve smith shows why hes the worlds number one batsman with a century as australia go past englands total in the opening ashes test. As analysts predict record spending on black friday, we hear the thoughts of some keen bargain hunters. Just came for black friday, ended up buying a television, headphones, clothes, jewellery, all sorts of things. And ben has the weekend weather. Good morning. A cold, frosty and in places icy start but the reward will be some crisp autumn sunshine. Some wintry showers as well. All the weekend weather details coming up. See you soon, ben. Good morning. First, our main story. Egypts military says it carried out air strikes on those behind the deadliest islamist terror attack in the countrys recent history. 235 people were killed and more than 100 injured after gunmen detonated a bomb and stormed a packed mosque in north sinai yesterday. Egypts air force says it has destroyed vehicles used by the militants, as well as weapons and ammunition at what it desc
Welcome to bbc news. Egypts military says it has carried out air strikes on those behind the deadliest islamist terror attack in the countrys recent history. More than 300 people were killed and more than 100 injured, after gunmen detonated a bomb and stormed a mosque in a remote town in north sinai yesterday. Egypts air force says it has destroyed vehicles used by the militants, as well as weapons and ammunition at what it described as terrorist locations. 0rla guerins report contains some distressing images. A rush to save those wounded when a place of worship became a place of carnage. The attackers struck during friday prayers. For egypt, this was a grim new first. The mosque was popular with sufi muslims, who revere saints and shrines, and are viewed as heretics by islamic extremists. Within hours, a televised address to a nation in shock. President Abdel Fattah Al sisi telling egyptians their anguish would not be in vain and there would be decisive punishment. The sophisticated a
Welcome to bbc news. Egypts military says it has carried out air strikes on those behind the deadliest islamist terror attack in the countrys recent history. 305 people were killed including 27 children and more than 100 were injured, after gunmen detonated a bomb and stormed a packed mosque in a remote town in north sinai yesterday. Within the last hour, the Egyptian Public Prosecutors Office has said the attackers were carrying the flag of the so called Islamic State. Egypts air force says it has destroyed vehicles used by the militants, as well as weapons and ammunition at what it described as terrorist locations. 0rla guerins report contains some distressing images. A rush to save those wounded when a place of worship became a place of carnage. The attackers struck during friday prayers. For egypt, this was a grim new first the mosque was popular with sufi muslims, who revere saints and shrines, and are viewed as heretics by islamic extremists. Within hours, a televised address to