UP

Sisi names Coptic cathedral bomber

Home page World
12 Punto 14 Punto 16 Punto 18 Punto
Sisi names Coptic cathedral bomber

A 22-year-old suicide bomber was behind Sunday’s massacre at Cairo’s Coptic Christian Cathedral complex, Egypt’s President said on Monday.

Axar.az informs, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, attending a state funeral for the 24 victims, said Mahmoud Shafik Mohamed Mostafa was responsible for the carnage. No-one has claimed responsibility but ISIL supporters have been celebrating on social media.

“What is happening is frustration from their side,” he told mourners. “They have been trying to break us for the last three years but they can’t – hitting our economy and with a wave of terrorist acts but they know that nothing will break us.”

He said three men and a woman had been detained over the attack and that two more people were being sought. While dismissing accusations of a security failure, Sisi called for tighter anti-terrorism laws. Copts have been targeted repeatedly by Islamist militants but Sunday’s attack, in which mainly women and children were killed, was the deadliest on Egypt’s Christian minority in years.

Date
2016.12.12 / 22:44
Author
Axar.az
See also

Putin: Russia is forever, difficulties are temporary

Germany’s Merz questions US strategy in Iran war

Putin dismisses Rossotrudnichestvo head Primakov

Copy of first German translation of Quran on display in Mecca

Leyen: Too early to drop sanctions against Iran

France to deploy troops to Cyprus for humanitarian role

Russia deploys new S-71K 'Kover' missile in Ukraine

Israeli President Isaac Herzog visits Kazakhstan

Kim Jong Un vows to continue support for Russia

Germany’s envoy summoned to Russian Foreign Ministry

Latest
Xocalı soyqırımı — 1992-ci il Bağla
Bize yazin Bağla
ArxivBağla