Alexandria Palm Sunday bombing, one year on
Channel: World Watch Monitor
Date: 2018-03-23

On Palm Sunday 2017, Magid was selling palm branches with his wife and son by the gate of St Mark’s Cathedral in Alexandria, Egypt, when a suicide bomber detonated his device near them, killing Magid’s wife, Hannan. Later 18 worshippers and four police officers were reported killed, and 35 others were injured.