A 10-year-old girl died Tuesday (December 20th) of wounds suffered in a Cairo church bombing this month, bringing the overall toll to 26 excluding the attacker, AFP reported.
Magy Magdy died at dawn from shrapnel wounds to the head following the suicide bombing on December 11th that was claimed by the "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" (ISIL), Egypt's health ministry said in a statement.
The bombing during mass at the Saint Peter and Saint Paul Church was the deadliest attack in recent memory to target Egypt's minority Coptic Christians.
Seventeen people remain in hospital including three in serious condition, the ministry said.
Previous death tolls for the bombing included the attacker.
On December 13th, ISIL identified the suicide bomber by the pseudonym Abu Abdallah al-Masri.
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi the day before named the suicide bomber as Mahmoud Shafik Mohamed Mostafa, 22, during a funeral for the victims.
