Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi vowed to hunt down the perpetrators of last week's twin church bombings as he visited Coptic Pope Tawadros II on Thursday (April 13th), AFP reported.
Al-Sisi's visit to the papal seat in Cairo came a day after the Interior Ministry identified one of the two suicide bombers who struck two Coptic churches on Palm Sunday, killing at least 45 people.
The "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" (ISIL) claimed the attacks, which followed a December 11th suicide bombing that killed 29 people in a Cairo church.
Al-Sisi said "state agencies were exerting their utmost effort to chase down the perpetrators of those vile acts".
The Interior Ministry on Wednesday offered a 100,000 Egyptian pound ($5,500) reward for information leading to the arrest of 18 suspects it said were members of extremist cells linked to the church attacks.
