CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt is screening people who arrived recently from countries where al-Qaeda is known to recruit after early findings suggested the militant network was behind a New Year's church bombing, security sources said.
A suspected suicide bomber killed 21 people and wounded 97 others outside a Coptic church in Alexandria during a New Year's midnight service. The authorities have been holding seven people for questioning.
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