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EGYPT: Church bombed

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Egyptian security officials say assailants have detonated a bomb in an empty church in northern Egypt, the Associated Press reported.

No one appears to have been injured in the attack on Holy Family Church in the town of Rafah on the border with the Gaza Strip. Security officials say the attackers also removed a cross outside the church.

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There was no immediate claim of responsibility, the Associated Press reported.

On New Year’s Day, a suicide bombing outside a Coptic church in the port city of Alexandria killed 21 people.

-- Molly Hennessy-Fiske

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