Terror Extends Its Reach in Sinai, Creating a Village of Widows
- Survivors talk of blood bath as gunmen fired on worshippers
- Conflict in north Sinai threatens to get out of control
Victims’ footwear outside Rawda mosque.
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His family village of Rawda was supposed to be a sanctuary for Suleiman after he fled fighting between security forces and Islamic extremists elsewhere in Egypt’s northern Sinai region.
On Friday, he was shot and left for dead in the country’s bloodiest terrorist attack in memory. He lost a son, two brothers, nephews and cousins in the bomb and gun assault on a mosque that killed 305 people and devastated a place where most residents are related.