Egypt’s Ministry of Interior has named, on Wednesday, the suicide bomber who was responsible for the attack on Alexandria’s St Mark’s Church as 31-year-old Mahmoud Hassan Mubarak Abdullah. The Ministry’s statement revealed that Abdullah had carried out previous attacks in Egypt and had links with terrorist cells. The statement added that efforts of security apparatuses are still ongoing to identify the suicide bomber behind the St George church attack in Tanta that took place on the same day. Abdullah joined a terrorist cell with Amr Saad Abbas, who founded several other terrorist cells according to the statement, and the same cell was responsible as well for the attack that targeted St Peter and St Paul Church in Cairo in December, leaving at least 29 killed. The Ministry continued that it had killed seven members of the cell and listed the names of 19 wanted members who also belong to the same terrorist group. A bomb detonated on Sunday in front of the main gate of St Mark’s Cathedral in Alexandria, killing at least 16 and injuring many others. The bombing of Alexandria came a few hours after another bombing that had…
Egypt Announces Identity of Alexandria Cathedral Suicide Bomber
April 13, 2017
