As a result of the incident, one policeman was killed. Four more people were injured. According to a local television station, the terrorists fired at the police station. At the same time, the responsibility for attacking the monastery was already assumed by the "Islamic state".

The attack occurred just ten days before the visit of Pope Francis to Egypt and just a week after two bombings with suicide bombers in Christian churches, I note the journalists of the TV channel.

Recall, the Monastery of St. Catherine is one of the oldest functioning Christian monasteries. It has been operating since the IV century.

As reported URA-Inform, April 9 in the church "Mar Girgis" of the city of Tanta there was an explosion. At least 42 people were injured. There are unofficial data on the five deaths.