Security service foams the Cairo bomb attack

cairo - Egyptian security officials have foiled a bomb attack on a church just outside of Cairo. The state television has announced this on Saturday. A suicide bomber was on his way to the prayer house in Qalyubiyah with a vest full of explosives. When he was stopped at about 250 meters in front of the entrance, he blew himself up. There were no other victims.

A spokesperson for the Ministry of Health reported only that an unknown object had exploded on the spot, resulting in dead, but not injured.

Islamic extremists have claimed several bloody attacks over the past years on the Christian minority's targets in Egypt. The last was in December at a Coptic Orthodox church in a suburb of Cairo. A terrorist invaded during a service and killed eleven believers. IS required the responsibility.