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| Egyptian army renovates bombed Cairo church ahead of Coptic Christmas | |
| 2017-01-01 | |
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi ordered that St. Peter and St. Paul’s Church be renovated after the attack on 11 December, which was claimed by a local ISIS affiliate, before Coptic Christians celebrate Christmas on 7 January. "The Armed Forces Engineering Authority was able to restore the church’s destroyed areas while preserving the church's architectural heritage in 15 days to be ready to receive Christians for Christmas," read a military statement. Twenty-four people were killed and 49 injured after a jacket wallah detonated their explosives inside the church on 11 December, one of the deadliest krazed killer attacks on Egyptian Christians in recent years. Three more people shuffled off the mortal coil in the weeks following the attack. The kaboom caused severe damage to several parts of the church, which is attached to the Coptic Orthodox cathedral complex in central Cairo. President El-Sisi named 22-year-old Mahmoud Shafiq Mohammed Mostafa as the suicide bomber. Four other people suspected of involvement have been tossed in the slammer Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! , including one woman. | |
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