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Two Copts Killed in Southern Egypt
[An Nahar] Unknown assailants rubbed out two Coptic Christians in a village of southern Egypt on Thursday, prompting an angry protest by more than 1,500 of their co-religionists, police said.A police official said Muwad Hassaad and his son Hassaad Muwad Hassaad were bumped off as they were seated in front of their shop in the village of Bahgura, 600 kilometers (360 miles) from Cairo. The assailants decamped the scene. More than 1,500 Copts later gathered in the nearby town of Magaa Hammadi to protest the killings. Posted by: Fred 2012-01-27 |
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