China Daily (Hong Kong)

Bombing at cathedral kills 25

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A bombing at Egypt’s main Coptic Christian cathedral killed 25 people and wounded another 49 on Sunday, according to Egyptian state television, in the second deadly attack to hit the Egyptian capital in two days. Egypt’s official MENA news agency said an assailant lobbed a bomb into a chapel close to the outer wall of St Mark’s Cathedral, seat of Egypt’s Orthodox Christian church and home to the office of its spiritual leader, Pope Tawadros II.

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