Explosion at Egyptian church during Palm Sunday service kills 21 and injures dozens

‘A bomb blast at a church north of Cairo killed at least 21 people and wounded dozens who had gathered for Palm Sunday mass, state media reported, in the latest apparent attack on Egypt’s Coptic Christians.
Some 40 people were wounded in the blast, which struck at a Coptic Church in the Nile Delta City of Tanta, 120 kilometres (75 miles) north of Cairo, the reports said.
Palm Sunday is one of the holiest days of the Christian calendar, marking the triumphant entrance of Jesus to Jerusalem.
The state-run Nile television channel said the blast struck the Mar Girgis Coptic Church in Tanta just before 10:00am (0800 GMT).
Provincial governor Ahmad Deif told the channel that at least 42 people were wounded and that the explosion occurred inside the church.’
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