The death toll from last weekend's bombing of a Coptic church in Cairo has risen to 26 after an elderly woman died of her injuries, AFP reported Friday (December 16th).
Odette Saleh Mikhail, 70, was left in critical condition following last Sunday's attack and underwent three operations, Egypt's health ministry said in a statement.
The attack during mass at the Saint Peter and Saint Paul Church was the deadliest in recent memory to target Egypt's minority Coptic Christians.
Twenty three people remain in hospital, three of them also in critical condition, the ministry said, and most of those killed were women.
The "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the attack.
