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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 first bombing, in Tanta, a Nile Delta city about 100 km (60 miles) north of Cairo, tore through the inside of St. George Church during its Palm Sunday service, killing at least 27 people and ...
9 April – 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 Palm Sunday church bombings. At least 45 people have been killed and 50 injured in explosions near two Coptic Christian churches packed with worshippers on Palm Sunday in the Egyptian cities of Tanta and Alexandria. (ABC Australia) The Government of Egypt imposes a three-month state of emergency in response to the bombings.
At least 44 people were killed in bomb attacks on two Egyptian Coptic churches on Palm Sunday.
[8] [9] On 9 April 2017, Palm Sunday, ISIS-SP bombed two Coptic churches—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—killing 45 people and injuring at least 125 others. [10]
14 October 2017 Mogadishu bombings; 2017 Mosul airstrike; N. 2017 New York City Subway bombing; P. Palm Sunday church bombings; 2017 Pattani bombing; Q.
2017 Palm Sunday church bombings. At least 45 people have been killed and 50 injured in explosions near two Coptic Christian churches packed with worshippers on Palm Sunday in the Egyptian cities of Tanta and Alexandria. (ABC Australia) The Government of Egypt imposes a three-month state of emergency in response to the bombings.