2nd church bombing in Egypt kills 11, death toll from 1st blast at 25

By AFP
April 9, 2017 @ 8:24pm

Pope Tawadros II, the pope of the Coptic Church of Egypt, walks to his office at St. Mark's Cathedral in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt state media said Sunday, April 9, 2017, that a blast had wounded people outside a church in Alexandria where the Coptic pope had earlier celebrated Palm Sunday. The Egyptian Health Ministry said Sunday that the blast in Alexandria killed several people and wounded tens of others, in a second Palm Sunday attack on Copts. (AP photo)

Cairo: At least 11 people were killed in an Alexandria church bombing on Sunday, hours after a bomb killed 25 worshippers in another church in Egypt, the health ministry said.

Thirty-five people were wounded in the Alexandria blast at Saint Mark’s Coptic Church, the ministry said in a statement.

An earlier blast at a church in Tanta, north of Cairo, killed 25 people and wounded dozens, officials said, in an apparent attack on Coptic worshippers. -- AFP

2nd church bombing in Egypt kills 11, death toll from 1st blast at 25

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