Botroseya Church bombing | |
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Location | Abbassia, Cairo, Egypt |
Date | 11 December 2016 10:00 (UTC+02:00) |
Target | Coptic Christians |
Attack type | Bombing |
Weapons | Suicide vest |
Deaths | 29[1][2] |
Injured | 47 |
Perpetrators | Islamic State - Sinai Province[3][4] |
Assailant | Mahmoud Shafiq Mohammed Mustafa[3] |
Martyrs of Botroseya Church | |
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Martyrs | |
Died | 11 December 2016 |
Venerated in | Coptic Orthodox Church |
Feast |
On 11 December 2016, a suicide bomber killed 29 people and injured 47 others at St. Peter and St. Paul's Church (commonly known as El-Botroseya Church[6]), a chapel next to Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral, seat of the Coptic Orthodox Pope, in Cairo's Abbasia district. Egypt's President, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi identified the bomber as 22-year-old Mahmoud Shafiq Mohammed Mustafa, who had worn a suicide vest. el-Sisi reported that three men and a woman have been arrested in connection with the attack; two others are being sought. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack.[7][8][9]