(Reuters) Tanta, April 9: Suicide bombers attacked two Coptic churches in Egypt on Palm Sunday, killing at least 40 worshippers and police officers stationed outside, in the deadliest day of violence against Christians in the country in decades. The first explosion occurred about 9.30 at St. George's Church in the Nile Delta city of Tanta, 50 miles north of Cairo, during a Palm Sunday Mass. Egyptian security officials found and defused several other explosive devices at other locations, including at a prominent Sufi Muslim shrine. In December, an Islamic State suicide bomber killed 28 people in an attack on a chapel in the grounds of St. Mark's Coptic Cathedral in Cairo. After the attack in December, the Islamic State said it was escalating a campaign of sectarian bloodshed in Egypt.

Source: The Telegraph April 09, 2017 22:07 UTC