{"id":146079,"date":"2018-01-14T06:33:45","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T11:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=146079"},"modified":"2025-01-13T10:23:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T15:23:42","slug":"gunmen-kill-christian-in-egypts-sinai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/14\/gunmen-kill-christian-in-egypts-sinai\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen kill Christian in Egypt&#8217;s Sinai"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_137736\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-137736\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gun-449783_960_720.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-137736\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gun-449783_960_720.jpg\" alt=\"The officials said three masked gunmen carried out the attack and identified the victim as 35-year-old Bassem Attallah. (Pixabay photo) \" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gun-449783_960_720.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gun-449783_960_720-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gun-449783_960_720-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-137736\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The officials said three masked gunmen carried out the attack and identified the victim as 35-year-old Bassem Attallah. <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/gun-shoot-cartridge-war-weapons-449783\/\">(Pixabay photo)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>EL-ARISH, Egypt\u2014 Egyptian security officials say gunmen have shot dead a Christian man in the turbulent north of the Sinai Peninsula, the latest attack to target members of the country&#8217;s Christian minority.<\/p>\n<p>The officials said three masked gunmen carried out the attack and identified the victim as 35-year-old Bassem Attallah.<\/p>\n<p>They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy zocor online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urologicalcare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/zocor.html\">https:\/\/www.urologicalcare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/zocor.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>No group claimed responsibility for the Saturday attack, which bore the hallmarks of Islamic State militants, who are spearheading a yearslong an insurgency in northern Sinai.<\/p>\n<p>IS has repeatedly targeted Egypt&#8217;s Christians, killing more than 100 in a series of deadly bombings and shootings since December 2016.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy clomiphene online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urologicalcare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/clomiphene.html\">https:\/\/www.urologicalcare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/clomiphene.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> The latest attack was last month, when a gunman opened fire outside a church in Cairo, killing nine people.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy valtrex online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urologicalcare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/valtrex.html\">https:\/\/www.urologicalcare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/valtrex.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EL-ARISH, Egypt\u2014 Egyptian security officials say gunmen have shot dead a Christian man in the turbulent north of the Sinai &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":137736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[43102,43101],"class_list":["post-146079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-w","tag-egyptian-security-officials","tag-gunmen-kill-christian-in-egypts-sinai","mauthors-ashraf-sweilam","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283478,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146079\/revisions\/283478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}