Friday afternoon in Egypt in the village of Er-Rauda near El-Arish - the center of the province of North Sinai during Friday prayers in the mosque, several explosions were carried out - the previously brought explosive devices.

Survivors of the explosion in the street were waiting for militants on four all-wheel drive cars that surrounded the mosque. They shot parishioners at point-blank range from machine guns. While there is no accurate data on the victims and victims of the terrorist attack. It is known that the dead reached 115 people, injured more than 120. Militants chose the time when the mosque had many civilians, children and soldiers-conscripts. It is the latter, according to law enforcement agencies, were the main target of the militants.

It is assumed that this is also the case of the IG (in the Russian Federation the organization is banned).

Special services and military of Egypt are engaged in the search for terrorists in the area of ??the mosque, but how many of them disappeared from the scene are also unknown.

Egyptian President Abdul-Fattah Al-Sisi summoned an emergency meeting of the Council of Ministers. Cairo introduced a state of emergency. In Egypt, declared a three-day mourning for the dead.