The number of wounded in Alexandria’s church bombing has reached 83.
21 people died in last night's bombing in front of the St. Mark and St. Peter Church in the Sidi Bishr area.
Most of the wounded are at the nearby St. Mark hospital. Thirteen people are being treated at the German Hospital, and a few less serious cases are in a public hospital.
According to Mina Yehia, a medic at the St. Mark hospital, five cases involve serious injuries. One of them is a four-year-old girl whose face is completely burnt.
He added that some families are refusing to let their relatives’ bodies end up in the morgue.
Nurses were seen collapsing at the hospital, reportedly due to the gravity of the cases.
In front of the hospital, a group of Christian women started chanting religious songs.
At the site of the bombing protests continued and riot police doubled its cordons in the morning. Protestors chanted "the blood of our children won't be wasted." Anti-al-Qaeda slogans were heard, as well as anti-security slogans.
Protestors also invoked the Naga Hammadi case, in which six Copts and a Muslim guard were killed in the Upper Egyptian city on the eve of Coptic Christmas in January.
Local sources from the area said that the nearby mosque was closed and that midday prayers there were cancelled.
Security requested that shops also close.
