Ten-year-old girl dies in hospital, raising death toll of Egypt church bombing to 27

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Ten-year-old girl dies in hospital, raising death toll of Egypt church bombing to 27
Published December 21st, 2016 - 12:00 GMT via SyndiGate.info

Egypt’s health ministry announced the death of ten-year-old Maggie Magdy on Tuesday due to a brain injury caused by the St. Peter and St. Paul church bombing.

The blast, which coincided with the Muslim celebration of the Prophet’s Birthday on Dec. 11, took place at the church attached to one of Egypt’s most symbolic sites for Copts, St. Mark’s Coptic Cathedral.

Magdy is the youngest of those killed by the explosion. Her death brings the death toll of the church bombing to 27. Most of those killed are women.

There are still seventeen injured people inside hospitals since the bombing.

Health ministry official Sherif Wadie told Aswat Masriya that Magdy suffered shrapnel in the brain due to the explosion and was held in the Galaa Military Hospital.

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