Two armed assailants launched an attack on the church of Mar Mina south of Cairo.
At least nine people have been killed in an attack on the church of Mar Mina in Helwan, just south of Egypt’s capital, Cairo.
Five others were wounded in the shooting.
One gunman was killed in an exchange of fire with the police, and another attacker was reportedly arrested.
Al Jazeera’s Charles Stratford reports.
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