Blast hits area near church in Egypt’s Tanta
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This image, taken on April 4, 2017, shows a crowd outside a church in the Egyptian Nile delta city of Tanta after a deadly blast.
At least 15 people have been killed and more than 40 others injured in an explosion that hit an area near a church in the northern Egyptian city of Tanta, sources say.
According to Press TV, state television confirmed the explosion on Sunday but the cause of the blast is yet unknown.
The sources added that there was a second blast near the city’s police academy.
Egypt has been facing violence due to terrorist attacks across the country in the past years. The Takfiri terrorist group known as “al-Wilayat Sina” has claimed responsibility for most of the attacks.
The group, previously known as “Ansar Bait al-Maqdis”, was founded in 2011, and in mid-2013, it began a campaign of deadly attacks against Egyptian security forces.
Terrorists have been taking advantage of the turmoil caused in Egypt after the country’s democratically-elected president, Mohamed Morsi, was ousted by the military in July 2013.
“Al-Wilayat Sina” has killed hundreds of soldiers and police officers, particularly in the Sinai Peninsula, since then. In November 2014, it pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr Baghdadi the ringleader of the self-styled Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, who is currently on the run and is hiding somewhere in the Syrian desert following the Iraqi army’s successful campaign to liberate Mosul.
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