A 13-year-old Christian, who held her dying father in her arms moments after a Cairo suicide bomb attack by Daesh (ISIS), has spoken about her heartbreaking experience.
Marian Nabil Habib told Aid to the Church in Need about the “martyrdom” of her father, Nabil Habib, who was among 29 people killed by Daesh extremists in the capital on 11 December 2016.
Mr Habib, who was 48, was working as a security guard at St Peter and St Paul’s Coptic Church, also known as El- Botroseya Church, where bombing took place. Describing her last moments with her father.
The 15-year-old teenager recalled feeling panic and confusion immediately after the explosion, Miss Habib said: “I rushed outside and found people running in all directions, screaming hysterically. There was a scene of complete destruction, but I still I did not know what had happened. I asked about my father but nobody knew where he was. I continued looking for him, then, at the entrance of the church, I found my father lying on the ground and bleeding heavily from his head.” “I have joined the church choir, which gives me inner peace, because it is one of the things that bring me closer to God.”
