The ManicaPost
FUNERALS have been held in Alexandria for victims of one of the two bomb attacks on Coptic churches in Egypt by so-called Islamic State (IS).
The ceremony at the Monastery of St Mina took place under heavy security. At least 45 people died in the bombings in Alexandria and the Nile Delta city of Tanta on Sunday, prompting a three-month state of emergency. Hours after the funerals, reports emerged of police killing seven IS militants planning more such attacks.
The interior ministry said the militants were killed after they opened fire on the security forces who approached them in the southern province of Assiut-Online
