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IS claims deadly Cairo church bombing

Published December 13, 2016 Updated December 13, 2016 08:38pm

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By Fawad Maqsood

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CAIRO: The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a bomb attack on a Cairo church that killed 25 people, in a statement circulated on social media on Tuesday.

Suicide bomber Abu Abdallah al-Masri carried out Sunday's attack, the group said in the statement, one day after authorities named the bomber as Mahmoud Shafik Mohamed Mostafa.

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