Bomb Attack On Egypt’s Coptic Christian Minority Kills At Least 25

At least 25 people were killed in a bombing at Egypt’s main Coptic Christian cathedral Sunday morning, the most deadly attack on the religious minority in recent years.
Local media reported an attacker threw a bomb into a chapel near the outer wall of St Mark’s Cathedral in Cairo.
However, other witnesses said an explosive device had been planted inside.
“I found bodies, many of them women, lying on the pews. It was a horrible scene,” cathedral worker Attiya Mahrous told the BBC.

Witness Mariam Shenouda told the Associated Press: “I saw a headless woman
being carried away. Everyone was in a state of shock. We were scooping up people’s flesh off the floor.”
“There were children. What have they done to deserve this? I wish I had died with them instead of seeing these scenes,” she said.
The bombing came two days after a explosion elsewhere in Cairo killed six policemen.
Islamic militants have targeted Coptic Christians in the past, including a bombing at a church in Alexandria on New Year’s Day 2011 that killed at least 21 people.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for Sunday’s attack.
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi declared three days of mourning and vowed to punish those behind the blast.
“Vicious terrorism is being waged against the country’s Copts and Muslims. Egypt will emerge stronger and more united from this situation,” the president said

The White House also condemned the attack and sent condolences to the victims’ loved ones.
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“This heinous attack targeting Christian worshipers as they gathered to practice their faith  demonstrates once again the need for the international community to remain resolute in confronting acts of terrorism across the globe,” National Security Council spokesman Ned Price said in a statement.
Amnesty International said the Egyptian government has not done enough to prevent attacks on Copts.
“The Egyptian authorities must do everything in their power to ensure that the investigation they have announced into today’s attack is effective, independent, and impartial, and brings to justice those responsible,” Amnesty’s Philip Luther, research and advocacy director for the Middle East and North Africa, said in a statement. “They must send a message that attacks targeting religious minorities will not be tolerated.”
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