Palm Sunday church bombings

When

9 Apr 2017

Kind

Terrorist attack

Coordinates

30.79° N, 31.01° E

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Palm Sunday church bombings.

The Palm Sunday church bombings, twin suicide bombings that took place at St. George's Church in Tanta, and Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Alexandria, killed at least 45 people and injured more than 100.

2017 suicide bombings at Coptic churches in Egypt

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 43 people were reported killed and 789 injured. The attacks were carried out by a security detachment of ISIS.

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