But Mohammed was waiting to ensure the status of the father who underwent some surgeries.
The father, Magdy said the terrorists for the first time attacked mosque because they failed to cause rift between the Copt and Muslims and also found difficulties in targeting more security men.
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi instructed the Armed Forces to set up a memorial for the victims who lost their lives in al Rawda mosque terrorist attack, official sources told MENA on Saturday.
The case would be tackled as "a top emergency case of state security," MENA added.
The attackers were riding five jeeps and they set seven cars of the worshippers ablaze before fleeing.
Some of the worshippers were Sufis, members of Islam's mystical movement, whom groups such as the IS consider as "infidels."
Local militant group Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, once allied to al-Qaeda, split from it and declared allegiance to the IS in 2017.
Sufis have been a target of Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis who burnt one of their shrines in 2013.
Also the IS affiliate in Sinai has beheaded a 98-year-old man who was considered as the Sufist's spiritual leader in North Sina in November 2016.
No group has declared responsibility for the al Rawda attack yet.
North Sinai province, a mostly desert area bordering Israel and the Palestinian Gaza Strip, has been experiencing waves of anti-security attacks that killed hundreds of police and army men since the army-led ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in 2013 in response to mass protests against his rule.
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