Gunmen on motorbikes fired indiscriminately into crowds leaving the wedding at St Mary’s Church in the Al-Warraq neighbourhood in the north of the capital. A man, the groom’s mother and two girls aged eight and 12 died; 18 others were wounded, according to the Ministry of Health.
One church leader at the scene said the church had had no police guard since June. Interim Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi said in a statement today that such attacks will ‘not succeed in sowing divisions between the nation’s Muslims and Christians’.
A Release contact in Cairo expressed his sadness over the attack. ‘Things have been quiet for a while, and now this.’ Release Int.
