May 21 (UPI) -- Egyptian Attorney General Nabil Sadik on Sunday said he referred 48 suspected Islamic State militants to a military court over the bombing of Coptic churches in which more than 70 people died.
Those accused face charges of establishing two terrorist cells in Cairo and Qena affiliated with the Islamic State that bombed the St. Peter and St. Paul Church in Cairo's Al-Abbasiya neighborhood in December; as well as the bombings in April targeting the Saint Mark's Church in Alexandria and the Mar Girgis church in Tanta.