“Egypt's Coptic churches hit by deadly blasts on Palm Sunday” http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-39544451
４月９日は「棕櫚の日曜日」。
これはかなりの大事件だよ。犠牲者の数もさることながら、何しろ教団の長がテロ現場に居合わせて間一髪で難を逃れたということなのだから。
Two blasts targeting Coptic Christians in Egypt on Palm Sunday have killed at least 40 people, officials say.In Alexandria, an explosion outside St Mark's Coptic church killed 13 people. Pope Tawadros II, head of the Coptic Church, had been attending Mass inside and was unhurt, state media reported.
An earlier blast at St George's Coptic church in Tanta*1 killed 27 people.
So-called Islamic State (IS) says it is behind the explosions. The group has targeted Copts in Egypt recently.
Four police officers, including one policewoman, were among those killed in Alexandria, the interior ministry said. The suicide bomber blew himself up after they stopped him from entering the church.
The first explosion in Tanta, 94km (58 miles) north of Cairo, took place near the altar.
Security forces later dismantled two explosive devices at the Sidi Abdel Rahim Mosque, also in Tanta, the state-run Al-Ahram news website reports*2 .
The explosions injured at least 78 people in Tanta and 35 others in Alexandria, the health ministry said.
カトリックのフランシス教皇は今月埃及を訪問する。教皇のコメント；
See also
Pope Francis, who is due to visit Egypt later this month, has condemned the explosions."I pray for the dead and the injured, and I am close in spirit to the family members (of the victims) and to the entire community," he said*3.
Joe Sterling, Faith Karimi, Mohammed Tawfeeq and Hamdi Alkhshali “ISIS claims responsibility for Egypt's Palm Sunday church bombings” http://edition.cnn.com/2017/04/09/middleeast/egypt-church-explosion/
Associated Press “Egypt: Isis claims responsibility for Coptic church bombings” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/09/egypt-coptic-church-bombing-death-toll-rises-tanta-cairo
2011年元旦に起こったアレクサンドリアのコプト教会*4に対する襲撃事件については、例えば、
David Batty”Egypt bomb kills new year churchgoers” http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/01/egypt-bomb-kills-new-year-churchgoers
Ian Black “Egypt arrests 7 over deadly Coptic church attack in Alexandria” http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/02/egypt-arrest-17-coptic-attack-alexandria
Amira Nowaira “The slow death of tolerance in Egypt” http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jan/05/egypt-coptic-tolerance-alexandria *5
ISISリビア支社によるコプト派信者の埃及人虐殺（2015年２月）については、例えば、
Ian Black “Isis claim of beheading Egyptian Copts in Libya shows group's spread” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/15/isis-21-egyptian-coptic-christians-beheading-libya
*1:See eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanta https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BF%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BF
*2:“LIVE UPDATE: Palm Sunday attacks on Tanta and Alexandria churches leave dozens dead and injured” http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/262573/Egypt/Politics-/LIVE-UPDATE-Palm-Sunday-attacks-on-Tanta-and-Alexa.aspx
*3:“Pope Francis condemns Cairo terror attack on Coptic church” http://www.news.va/en/news/pope-francis-condemns-cairo-terror-attack-on-copti
*4:今回と同じ？
*5:Mentioned in http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20110108/1294455755
