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A suicide attack on a Coptic church leaves 21 dead, driving a wedge between Christians and Muslims. At least 21 people were killed and around 80 injured in a suspected suicide bombing outside a church in Alexandria as worshippers left a New Year service, reported The Guardian , London on January 1st. It was initially thought a car bomb had caused the explosion just after midnight at the Coptic orthodox al‐Qidiseen church. But the Interior Ministry later ruled it out, saying the attack was instead “carried out by a suicide bomber who died among the crowd”. The circumstances of the attack “clearly indicates that foreign elements undertook planning and execution”, the Foreign Ministry statement said. The governor of Alexandria, Adel Labib, accused al‐Qaeda of planning the bombing. “The al‐Qaeda organisation threatened to attack churches inside Egypt. This has nothing to do with sectarianism,” he said on state television. His assessment was shared by Kameel Sadeeq of the city’s Coptic Christian council. “People went in to church to pray to God but ended up as scattered limbs,” he told Reuters. “This massacre has al‐Qaeda written all over, the same pattern al‐Qaeda has adopted in other countries.” Following the blast,
Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series – Wiley
Published: Jan 1, 2011
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