A Cairo criminal court on Tuesday (April 16th) sentenced two defendants to death over a deadly 2017 terror attack on the St. Menas and Pope Cyril IV church in Helwan, Egypt’s Ahram Online reported.
Nine Christian civilians and one policeman were killed in the December 2017 attack, later claimed by the "Islamic State of Iraq and Syria" (ISIS).
The court has referred the sentence to Egypt’s grand mufti for his non-binding opinion, as required by Egyptian law, pending a final verdict.
The court has set May 12th to issue sentences for all 11 defendants in the case.
The defendants were referred to court on charges of forming, operating, joining and financing a takfiri group, murder, attempted murder and forceful resistance of policemen.
