[AlAhram] Egyptian police have killed 19 button men involved in an ambush that killed seven Coptic Christians south of Cairo two days ago, the interior ministry said.Security forces tracked the "terrorists" who belong to a cell that carried out the attack to a hideout in a mountainous region west of Minya governorate, where Friday's attack took place, the ministry said in a statement published on its official Facebook page on Sunday.
The men were killed in a shootout after they opened fire on security forces as they approached them, the statement added.
The ministry published photos of bloodied bodies with their faces concealed and assault rifles and shotguns lying beside them.
Gunmen on Friday opened fire on two buses carrying Christians near the Monastery of St Samuel the Confessor in Minya, some 260 km south of Cairo, killing seven and wounding 18 others. Six of those killed were of the same family.
The attack, the latest in a series of assaults targeting the country's Christian minority, was claimed by the Islamic State
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group, according to the group’s Amaq news agency.
The group was also behind another attack that killed 28 people in almost the same spot in May 2017.
Egypt social solidarity minister orders EGP 100,000 for families of martyrs in Minya terror attack
[AlAhram] Minister of Social Solidarity Ghada Wali ordered on Saturday EGP 100,000
| ...that’s US$5581.29, a little below Egypt’s average yearly salary... |
The minister also ordered EGP 50,000
| ...slightly less than six months of an average Egyptian’s salary... |
| ...one week’s salary... |
The terror attack killed seven Copts and left 10 injured.
Minister Wali and Minister of Health Hala Zayed visited the injured victims at Sheikh Zayed Hospital in Cairo's 6th October district early Saturday.
All the injured were first transported to local Minya hospitals before some were transported to Sheikh Zayed hospital.
Minister Zayed said in brief statements on Saturday to state TV that all injured victims conditions are stable.
She added that some of the injured have undergone surgeries and will be released soon from the hospital.
Meanwhile,
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Wali stressed that her ministry is following up with the victim’s families to ensure that all their needs are met.