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| Sisi orders renovation of bombed church before Coptic Christmas |
| 2016-12-16 |
| [AlAhram] Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi ordered on Thursday the renovation of St. Peter and St. Paul Church, the site of 11 December's devastating kaboom, to be completed before Coptic Christmas on 7 January. The president announced the renovation during the inauguration ceremony of the four highways project, saying that the Armed Forces Engineering Authority will be responsible for executing the project. Head of the Armed Forces Engineering Authority Kamel El-Wazir has said that the church will be restored to its original condition within 15 days. At least 25 people were killed and 49 injured on Sunday in a suicide kaboom on the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, which is attached to Cairo's main Coptic cathedral in Abbasiya. The kaboom caused severe damage to several parts of the church. Security measures tightened at all Egypt's archaeological sites and museums: Official [AlAhram] Antiquities authorities are tightening security measures at archaeological sites in the aftermath of Sunday Cairo church bombing |
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