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Six dead in bomb blast at church in Egypt's Alexandria

Published: 09 Apr 2017 - 03:00 pm | Last Updated: 01 Nov 2021 - 02:37 pm
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AFP

Cairo: At least six people were killed in a Sunday bombing at a church in Alexandria, Egypt's health ministry said, hours after a bomb killed 25 worshippers at a church north of Cairo. 

"Six people were killed and 33 injured in the explosion of a suspect device at Saint Mark's church" in Egypt's second city, 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.