Palm Sunday church bombings

2017 Palm Sunday church bombings
Part of Insurgency in Egypt (2013–present)
Tanta Alexandria Palm Sunday church bombings (Egypt)
Location	Tanta and Alexandria, Egypt
Coordinates	30°47′34″N 31°00′19″E / 30.792838°N 31.005390°E / 30.792838; 31.005390 (Tanta), 31°11′54″N 29°53′59″E / 31.198363°N 29.899601°E / 31.198363; 29.899601 (Alexandria)
Date	9 April 2017, Palm Sunday
Target	Coptic Christians
Attack type	Suicide Bombings
Weapons	Explosive vests
Deaths	375
Injured	789
Perpetrators	ISIS
Assailant	Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary
No. of participants	3
Motive	Anti-Christian sentiment fueled by radical Islamic extremism

Part of a series of articles on the
Modern persecution of Coptic Christians
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Terrorist attacks
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On Palm Sunday, 9 April 2017, twin suicide bombings took place at St. George's Church in the northern Egyptian city of Tanta on the Nile delta, and Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral, the principal church in Alexandria, seat of the Coptic papacy. At least 375 people were reported killed and 789 injured. [1] The attacks were carried out by a security detachment of ISIS.