Odette Saleh Mikhail
Age: 70
Summary: Egyptian parishioner at
the Saint Peter and Saint Paul Coptic Orthodox Church
in Cairo, Egypt who had been hospitalized in critical condition for a
week from the wounds she sustained 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: Complications of injuries sustained in a suicide bombing
Born: 1946
Died: December 16, 2016
Location: Cairo, Egypt