Terror strikes Cairo again. Bomb goes off in Coptic church, leaving 25 dead

A bomb exploded during a mass on Sunday morning at Cairo's Coptic cathedral, leaving 25 dead and 35 wounded. The device had been planted in a bag that an unidentified woman left in the church. On Friday, a powerful bomb blew up next to a police vehicle at a checkpoint on one of the Egyptian capital's main thoroughfares, killing six policemen and wounding six others.

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