✣ Bombing at Cairo church kills women and children
What happened?
Twenty-five people were killed at a church in Cairo when a suicide bomber blew himself up during a Sunday liturgy. The attack took place at a chapel adjacent to St Mark’s Cathedral, the seat of Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church. It was one of the deadliest ever attacks on Egypt’s Christian minority, which makes up about 10 per cent of the population. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi declared three days of national mourning. Three men and a woman were arrested in connection with the attack.
