Maggie Momen
Age: 10
Summary: Egyptian
ballet dancer, actress, volleyball player and fourth-grade student at
Ramses Girls College in Cairo, Egypt who was hospitalized in critical
condition for a week with shrapnel in the head and damage to her lungs
after sustaining life threatening injuries suffered in the horrific December 11 Botroseya
Church bombing when a suicide bomber set off explosives in the women's
section of the chapel adjacent to Egypt's main Coptic Christian
cathedral killing 25 people (mostly women and children) and injured 45
others during Sunday mass in the deadliest attack to target Egypt's
Coptic Christian minority in recent years since a 2011 suicide bombing
killed more than 20 worshippers outside a church in the coastal city of
Alexandria, in which the Islamic State militant group has claimed
responsibility for the deadly attack after Egyptian authorities
arrested a number of people accused of involvement in the bombing.
Cause of Death: Injuries sustained in a suicide bombing
Born: 2006
Died: December 20, 2016
Location: Cairo, Egypt