CAIRO: An Egyptian man was sentenced on Sunday to death by hanging for a deadly attack on a Cairo church in 2017 claimed by the Islamic State Jihadist group, a judicial source said.
Ten people including a police officer were killed as the assailant targeted the Saint Mina Coptic church in Helwan, on the southern outskirts of Cairo.
According to the authorities, the attacker was armed with an assault rifle, ammunition and a bomb he intended to detonate at the church.
A Cairo criminal court sentenced the man for “murdering nine Copts and a policeman, possessing weapons and forming a terrorist group linked to IS,” the source said. A second man, who is on the run, was sentenced to death in absentia, the source added. Two others were sentenced in absentia to life in prison, four received 10-year terms and two were given three years each in prison. Another defendant was acquitted.
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