Egyptian authorities researching the slaughter of admirers at a mosque in Sinai say the aggressors were conveying the banner of the Islamic State gathering.
No less than 305 individuals kicked the bucket in the attack, which was propelled amid Friday petitions and has not yet been guaranteed by any gathering.
Egypt's open prosecutor said there were up to 30 assailants at the scene.
President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has pledged to react with "the most extreme power".
The Egyptian military says it has just led air strikes on "psychological militant" targets.
Egyptian security powers have for a considerable length of time been battling an Islamist rebellion in the Sinai promontory, and aggressors subsidiary with supposed Islamic State (IS) have been behind scores of lethal assaults in the forsake district.
Friday's assault in the town of Bir al-Abed is the nation's deadliest in late memory.
Al-Rawda mosque was shelled and after that many shooters, holding up outside, opened discharge on those endeavoring to get away. A few aggressors wore veils and military-style regalia.
The attackers apparently set stopped vehicles ablaze in the region to close off access to the building, and terminated on ambulances endeavoring to help casualties.
Thirty kids are among the dead and more than 100 individuals have been injured.
"What is going on is an endeavor to prevent us from our endeavors in the battle against psychological warfare," Mr Sisi said in a broadcast address hours after the assault.
"The military and the police will vindicate our saints and reestablish security and dependability with the most extreme power."
What is specific about this assault is this isn't just the first on such a scale, yet it was additionally done with such an absence of enthusiasm for nearby progression.
Up to this point, radical gatherings have been attempting to enroll in Egypt, from among neighborhood Egyptians.
It is extremely hard to perceive how that will be remotely conceivable after this assault - independent of neighborhood grievances opposite the state. In the event that anything, this will just strengthen neighborhood restriction to any gathering that claims the smallest piece of sensitivity for assaults of this nature.
Which aggressors work in the range?
Aggressor Islamists ventured up assaults in Sinai after Egypt's military toppled Islamist President Mohammed Morsi following mass hostile to government dissents in July 2013.
Several police, troopers and regular folks have been murdered from that point forward, for the most part in assaults completed by the Sinai Province gathering, which is associated to IS.
Sinai Province has additionally completed fatal assaults against Egypt's Coptic Christian minority somewhere else in the nation, and said it was behind the bombarding of a Russian plane conveying visitors in Sinai in 2015, murdering 224 individuals on load up.
It has been working primarily in North Sinai, which has been under a highly sensitive situation since October 2014, when 33 security staff were murdered in an assault guaranteed by the gathering.
Sinai Province is thought to need to take control of the Sinai promontory keeping in mind the end goal to transform it into an Islamist territory keep running by IS.
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