IS Claims Deadly Cairo Church Bombing

Faizan Hashmi Published December 14, 2016 | 01:40 AM

IS claims deadly Cairo church bombing

CAIRO, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 14th Dec, 2016 ) : The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a bomb attack on a Cairo church that killed 25 people, in a statement circulated on social media on Tuesday.

Suicide bomber Abu Abdallah al-Masri carried out Sunday's attack, the group said in the statement, one day after authorities named the bomber as Mahmoud Shafik Mohamed Mostafa.

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