Interior Minister Magdy Abdel Ghaffar directed on Sunday the ministry’s medical department to inform all police hospitals to receive injured people in the blast that targeted the Boutrosiya Church in Cairo.

The minister ordered putting all police hospitals in Cairo and Giza governorates on high alert to provide the injured with required medical treatment.

A total of 24 people were killed while 35 others were injured in an explosion that targeted the Boutrosiya Church which is adjacent to the St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Abbasiya in Cairo.

Source: MENA