It was reported on 4 January that Egyptian police have arrested four people in the wake of the bombing that killed dozens of Christians at Cairo’s Coptic Christian cathedral in December.
According to the Health Ministry, the death toll from the bombing at a chapel next to St Mark’s Cathedral in Cairo has risen to 28.
President al-Sisi said following the attack that the perpetrator was a man named Mahmoud Shafik, who had worn a suicide vest, and that security forces were seeking two more people in conjunction with the attack.
