Sinai massacre forebodes more violence
Egypt's Sinai Peninsula may be in store for more terrorism as the latest attack that left more than 300 people dead at al-Rawda Sufi mosque could be a sign of things to come from militant groups in the area.
![AFP_UL66J Egyptian children stand near a pile of footwear belonging to the victims of the attack that targeted the Rawda mosque near North Sinai provincial capital of El-Arish, on November 25, 2017.
Armed attackers killed at least 235 worshippers in a bomb and gun assault on the packed mosque in Egypt's restive North Sinai province, in the country's deadliest attack in recent memory. / AFP PHOTO / STR (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_hero_medium/public/almpics/2017/11-1/GettyImages-879080080.jpg/GettyImages-879080080.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=wRhG5AHa)
It was a nightmare scene — the worst in Egypt’s modern history. Over 300 civilians, including 27 children, died and more than 100 were wounded in a terrorist attack that targeted a mosque in the Bedouin village of al-Rawda, 40 kilometers (25 miles) west of el-Arish, the capital of North Sinai province.
Residents say that most of the village’s men were killed in the attack, which they described as a massacre bordering on genocide. The village is home to around 2,000 people, most of them from al-Jarirat tribe, part of al-Sawarka tribe, the peninsula’s second biggest.