UPDATE: 21 killed and 50 wounded in Cairo church bombing

Some 21 people killed and at least 50 were injured in an explosion inside a church in the Egyptian Nile delta city of Tanta on Sunday, Egypt’s state television reported.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility and the cause of the blast was not yet known.

A bombing at Cairo’s largest Coptic cathedral killed at least 25 people and wounded 49 in December, many of them women and children, in the deadliest attack on Egypt’s Christian minority in years.

Christians make up around 10 per cent of Egypt’s population and have repeatedly been targeted by Islamic extremists.

The attack took place on the Coptic Christian Palm Sunday, when the church in the Nile Delta town of Tanta was packed with worshippers.

Ministry spokesman Khaled Megahed confirmed the toll from the attack in an interview with CBC TV.

The state-run MENA news agency provided the same death toll and said 35 were wounded.

Source: Thirteen killed and 42 wounded in Cairo church bombing | Daily Mail Online