BREAKING NEWS: 13 Christians Reported Dead in Tanta, Egypt
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Conatus News/Uncommon Ground Media Inc.
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2017/04/09
At least 13 people have been killed in an explosion St George’s Coptic church in the city of Tanta, north of Cairo., Egypt.
According to various television channels, whilst the cause of the explosion is not yet known, at least 40 people had been injured in the Palm Sunday attack.
Egypt’s Christian minority has often been targeted by Islamist militants in recent years.
25 people died in December of 2016 when a bomb exploded at a Coptic cathedral in Cairo.
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