CAIRO - Egyptian state TV says 23 people were killed and 25 wounded in an attack by gunmen on a bus carrying Coptic Christians south of Cairo.
http://www.11alive.com/ext/news/nation-now/egypt-gunmen-attack-coptic-christians-at-least-23-dead/85/nationnow/1lVOHbYqtiy4QKAYACcOYg
Friday’s attack, which took place on the eve of Islam’s holy month of Ramadan.
Egypt’s Interior Ministry, which set the death toll at 26, said gunmen in three vehicles opened fire as the bus headed to a monastery in the Minya region, about 150 miles south of Egypt’s capital.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/gunmen-kill-23-christians-in-central-egypt/2017/05/26/3d2693dc-41fc-11e7-adba-394ee67a7582_story.html
ETA: “Coptic” means “Egyptian,” and Christians living in Egypt identify themselves as Coptic Christians.
http://www.11alive.com/ext/news/nation-now/egypt-gunmen-attack-coptic-christians-at-least-23-dead/85/nationnow/1lVOHbYqtiy4QKAYACcOYg
Friday’s attack, which took place on the eve of Islam’s holy month of Ramadan.
Egypt’s Interior Ministry, which set the death toll at 26, said gunmen in three vehicles opened fire as the bus headed to a monastery in the Minya region, about 150 miles south of Egypt’s capital.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/gunmen-kill-23-christians-in-central-egypt/2017/05/26/3d2693dc-41fc-11e7-adba-394ee67a7582_story.html
ETA: “Coptic” means “Egyptian,” and Christians living in Egypt identify themselves as Coptic Christians.