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| Islamic State claims deadly attack on Egyptian Christians | ||
| 2017-05-28 | ||
| [IsraelTimes] Authorities raise official corpse count from bus shooting to 29. The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... jihadist group on Saturday grabbed credit for an attack on a bus in central Egypt that killed dozens of Christians, its propaganda arm said. "A security detachment from the Islamic State carried out an attack yesterday in Minya, targeting a bus carrying Copts and taking the lives of 32 of them," Amaq reported. Earlier on Saturday, Egyptian authorities increased the official corpse count from the attack in Minya province to 29. The Egyptian Cabinet said in a news release that 13 victims of Friday’s attack remained hospitalized in Cairo and the southern province of Minya where the attack took place. Authorities had previously said 28 were killed. Senior Egyptian officials said fighter jets targeted bases in eastern Libya of the Shura Council, an Islamist militia known to be linked to al-Qaeda, not the Islamic State group. There was no immediate word on damage.
Egyptian military sources said six strikes took place near Derna in eastern Libya at around sundown; hours after masked gunnies attacked a group of Coptic Christians traveling to a monastery in southern Egypt, killing 29 and wounding 24 East Libyan forces said they participated in the air strikes, which had targeted forces linked to al-Qaeda at a number of sites, and would be followed by a ground operation.
Majlis al-Shura front man Mohammed al-Mansouri said in a video posted online that the Egyptian air strikes did not hit any of the group's camps, but instead hit civilian areas. Gunmen did not shoot randomly Eyewitnesses said masked men opened fire after stopping the Christians, who were in a bus and other vehicles on a desert road. Local TV channels showed a bus apparently raked by gunfire and smeared with blood. Eyewitnesses said three vehicles were attacked. First to be hit was a vehicle taking children to the monastery as part of a church-organized trip, and another vehicle taking families there. The gunnies boarded the vehicles and shot all the men and took all the women's gold jewelry. They then shot women and kiddies in the legs. When one of the gunnies's vehicles got a flat tire they stopped a truck carrying Christian workers, shot them, and took the truck. One of the gunnies recorded the attack on the Copts with a video camera, eyewitnesses said. The attack took place on a road leading to the monastery of Saint Samuel the Confessor in Minya province. Security forces launched a hunt for the attackers, setting up dozens of checkpoints and patrols on the desert road. Police armed with assault rifles formed a security perimeter around the attack site while officials from the public prosecutor's office gathered evidence. Heavily armed special forces arrived later wearing face masks and body armor. | ||
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