EGYPT ATTACK: Gunman Kills 7 Coptic Christians During Bus Ambush
Gunmen said to be from the Islamic State ambushed a bus carrying worshipers who were returning from a remote Coptic Christian monastery in northern Egypt on Friday, killing at least 7 and wounding 12, according to the Interior Ministry.
“Terrorists opened fire on a bus carrying people,” Coptic Christian Archbishop Makarious of Minya, a town roughly 150 miles south of Cairo, said in a phone interview. The pilgrims, said community leaders, were returning from a visit to Saint Samuel the Confessor Monastery in a remote patch of Egypt’s western desert.
Six of the seven killed were all from the same family, according to a post on the Facebook page of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt.
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Egypt’s prosecutor-general Nabil Sadek has dispatched a team of prosecutors to the site of the terrorist attack on the bus on Friday. In an official statement, Sadek ordered members of northern Minya prosecution and members of Supreme State Security prosecution to the site to investigate the attack. He also instructed a team to head to hospitals where the injured are receiving treatment to hear their testimonies.
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