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A knife-wielding man mortally wounded an Orthodox Coptic priest during an attack at the popular seaside promenade in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria on Thursday evening, Egypt’s interior ministry said. The ministry said the priest died while being treated for his wounds at a military hospital. The suspected 60-year-old attacker was caught by pedestrians who turned him in to the authorities, according to a statement posted by the prosecutor general’s office on Facebook. Prosecutor general Hamada El-Sawy ordered an immediate investigation into the incident adding that the suspect was curren…