At least 25 people, most of them women, were killed and about 49 injured in the blast inside Cairo's Coptic Cathedral complex on Sunday.
A bomb exploded in the chapel as Sunday Mass was about to end. President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi said at the state funeral for the victims attended by hundreds of mourners that a suicide bomber carried out the attack. He identified the bomber as a 22-year-old man who wore an explosive vest which he detonated in the chapel. The Interior Ministry released a picture of the alleged suicide bomber.
Sissi said that four other suspects in the attack have been arrested.
A three days of mourning has been declared in the country.
Coptic Pope Tawadros II cut short a Greece tour and also conducted a private service for
A bomb exploded in the chapel as Sunday Mass was about to end. President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi said at the state funeral for the victims attended by hundreds of mourners that a suicide bomber carried out the attack. He identified the bomber as a 22-year-old man who wore an explosive vest which he detonated in the chapel. The Interior Ministry released a picture of the alleged suicide bomber.
Sissi said that four other suspects in the attack have been arrested.
A three days of mourning has been declared in the country.
Coptic Pope Tawadros II cut short a Greece tour and also conducted a private service for