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Egypt, massacre of Christians: over 40 dead

The first explosion in a town north of Cairo, the second outside the cathedral of San Marco, where Patriarch Tawadros II had said Mass on Palm Sunday. Over a hundred injured. Pope Francis' visit in 3 weeks. ISIS claims responsibility for the two massacres. Al-Sisi: 3 days of national mourning, special army units for security.

Egypt, massacre of Christians: over 40 dead

Double attack on Egyptian Coptic Christian churches on Palm Sunday. The first attack, which took place in the early morning inside the church in Tanta, a city on the Nile delta, caused 27 deaths and 78 wounded. The second, carried out by a kamikaze, took place a few hours later in Alexandria, which is the Egyptian Coptic "capital", outside the church of San Marco, where the patriarch of the Egyptian Coptic Church Tawadros II was present: the balance provided by the Ministry of Health is 16 dead and 41 wounded.

The attacks were claimed by ISIS. In Tanta itself, the Egyptian security forces defused, according to a local newspaper, two bombs that had been planted in the Sidi Abdel Rahim mosque in Tanta, the second most important in the city, with a Sufi shrine inside. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has ordered the deployment of special army units to ensure security in Egypt's most sensitive places.

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