Alwaght- At least 21people have been killed and 42 others wounded after a deadly explosion hit a church in Egypt’s al-Gharbeyya governorate.
According to preliminary reports in state media, a bomb had been placed inside the church underneath a seat in Tanta city about 55 miles north of Cairo.
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 Velayat Sinai terrorist group 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.
Militants 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.
Velayat Sinai has killed hundreds of soldiers and police officers, particularly in the Sinai Peninsula, since then. In November 2014, it pledged allegiance to the Daesh terrorist group, which is mainly active in Syria and Iraq, and renamed itself again as Daesh-Velayat Sinai Province.
