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29/12/2017 GMT

Cairo Church Targeted in Attack

BBC World Service - Newshour, Cairo Church Targeted in Attack

At least ten people have been killed in an attack on a church in Cairo

At least ten people have been killed in an attack on a church in Cairo.

Egyptian police have shot dead a gunman who attacked a church and a Coptic-owned shop south of Cairo; at least ten people are reported to have been killed. 

Also in the programme: An eyewitness account of the fire that killed 15 people in Mumbai; and will China's ban on importing plastics leave much of the world without anywhere to recycle?

(Image: Security forces stand guard at the site of an attack on a church in Cairo. Credit: REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh)

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