| 2017 Palm Sunday church bombings | |
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| Part of Insurgency in Egypt (2013–present) | |
  Tanta Alexandria Palm Sunday church bombings (Egypt) | |
| Location | Tanta and Alexandria, Egypt |
| Coordinates | 30°47′34″N 31°00′19″E / 30.792838°N 31.005390°E (Tanta), 31°11′54″N 29°53′59″E / 31.198363°N 29.899601°E (Alexandria) |
| Date | 9 April 2017, Palm Sunday |
| Target | Coptic Christians |
Attack type | Suicide Bombings |
| Weapons | Explosive vests |
| Deaths | 43 |
| Injured | 136 |
| Perpetrators |  ISIS |
No. of participants | 3 |
| Motive | Anti-Christian sentiment fueled by radical Islamic extremism |
| Part of a series of articles on the |
| Modern persecution of Coptic Christians |
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On Palm Sunday, 9 April 2017, twin suicide bombings took place at St. George's Church in the northern Egyptian city of Tanta on the Nile delta, and Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral, the principal church in Alexandria, seat of the Coptic papacy. At least 43 people were reported killed and 789 injured. [1] The attacks were carried out by a security detachment of ISIS.