Coming up on sportsday, englands women return to world cup qualifying tonight without the sacked former manager mark sampson, who oversaw victory in their first group match. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. Its one of the deadliest attacks in modern egyptian history. At least 235 people have been killed and more than 100 injured, many critically, after gunmen detonated a bomb and then stormed a packed mosque at the end of friday prayers. It happened in a remote town in egypts north sinai region. Egypts president has vowed to respond with brutal force. James landale reports. This report contains some distressing images. These were some of the chaotic scenes after the attack, as hundreds of wounded people were rushed to nearby hospitals. Survivors of one of the most deadly attacks on civilians in egypt. Witnesses said the militants stormed the mosque in northern sinai and exploded a bomb inside. They said around a0 gunmen then fired on worshippers as they tried to flee. T
Help us understand the facts and figures through Data Journalism . Join us at 7 45pm he had on bbc news. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. It is one of the deadliest attacks in moderate egyptian history, at least 235 people have been killed and more than 100 injured, many critically, after gunmen detonated a bomb and stormed a packed mosque at the end of friday prayers. It happened in a remote town in educs north sinai region. The egyptian president has promised to respond with brutal force. The egyptian president has promised to respond with brutalforce. There are distressing images in this report. These were some of the chaotic scenes after the attack, as hundreds of wounded people were rushed to nearby hospitals. Survivors of one of the most deadly attacks on civilians in egypt. Witnesses said the militants stormed the mosque in northern sinai and exploded a bomb inside. They said around a0 gunmen then fired on worshippers as they tried to flee. They came here to kneel in prayer
Welcome to bbc news. It is one of the deadliest attacks in modern egyptian history. At least 235 people have been killed and more than 100 injured, many critically, after gunmen detonated a bomb and then stormed a packed mosque at the end of friday prayers. It happened in a remote town in egypts north sinai region. Egypts president has vowed to respond with brutal force. There are some distressing images injames landales report. These were some of the chaotic scenes after the attack, as hundreds of wounded people were rushed to nearby hospitals. Survivors of one of the most deadly attacks on civilians in egypt. Witnesses said the militants stormed the mosque in northern sinai and exploded a bomb inside. They said around a0 gunmen then fired on worshippers as they tried to flee. They came here to kneel in prayer. Instead, they lay down in death. President sisi sent his condolences to the families of those who had died and said the attack would only increase egypts determination to face
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 state has been battling them for years. As egypt counted its new dead, analysts here warned that president sisi has already tried a hardline military response to no avail. The scorched earth approach that we have seen has failed to prevent this from happening, it has failed to prevent isis from continuing to operate in egypt and in sinai specifically. And its a reasonable question to ask, to what extent does this scorched earth approach actually help isis perhaps recruit further followers . The most deadly previous attack by is here was the downing of this russian aircraft in sinai in 2015, with a loss of 224 lives. In the past year, is have killed scores of christians in three attacks on churches, saying followers of the cross were their favourite prey. This time, militants in sinai have targeted the
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