The Latest: Egypt says church attack was a suicide bombing
CAIRO — The Latest on the church bombing in Egypt (all times local):
2:45 p.m.
Egypt’s president says a suicide bomber caused the explosion that killed 24 Christians during Sunday Mass at a Cairo chapel.
President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi on Monday identified the bomber as 22-year-old Mahmoud Shafiq Mohammed Mustafa.
He says three men and a woman have been arrested in connection with the attack at a chapel adjacent to Cairo’s St Mark’s Cathedral, the seat of the Coptic Orthodox Church.