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· Cairo, Egypt
Botroseya chapel bombing
St. Peter and St. Paul Church (Botroseya)
- Killed
- 29
- Injured
- 47
- Structures
- 1
- Denomination
- Coptic Orthodox
A suicide bomber detonated inside a chapel adjoining St. Mark’s Cathedral, the Coptic papal seat. Twenty-nine people were killed, most of them women and children at a Sunday service.
ISIS claimed the bombing. It was the deadliest attack on Copts in Cairo in years and preceded the 2017 Palm Sunday church bombings.
Source: Reuters · Open report
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