Palm Sunday Church Bombings
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Target | Coptic Christians |
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Deaths | Tanta |
Alexandria | |
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ID | 1398658 |
About Palm Sunday Church Bombings
On Palm Sunday, 9 April 2017, twin suicide bombings took place at St. George's Church in the northern Egyptian city of Tanta on the Nile delta, and Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral, the principal church in Alexandria, seat of the Coptic papacy. At least 45 people were reported killed and 126 injured.