Egypt cleric denounces 'cancerous' militantspublished at 13:13 Greenwich Mean Time 1 December 2017
BBC World Service
Egyptian religious and military leaders have joined worshippers for Friday prayers in a mosque in the Sinai peninsula a week after it was the scene of a massacre.
Militants killed more than 300 people in what was the worst of attack of its kind in Egypt's modern history.
The country's most senior Muslim cleric, Ahmed al-Tayyeb, described the attackers as a "cancer", and he appealed to local people to help the authorities root out the region's militants.
Survivors of the massacre said the gunmen came carrying the black flag of the Islamic State group.