An Egyptian military court today sentenced 17 defendants to death in a case involving church bombings in 2016 and 2017 in which about 75 people were killed, a court official said.
The official said the defendants had been convicted of "targeting the Abbasid church in Abbasia (Cairo - December 2016), which killed 29 people and the attacks on the Church of Mary Girgis in Tanta in the Nile Delta in April 2017, killing 27 people and the Alexandria Church in April 2017. ) In the killing of 18 individuals. "