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Africa North
Egypt hunts for killers in church wedding attack
2013-10-22
[Pak Daily Times] Police were hunting on Monday for gunnies who rubbed out four Copts at a church wedding, in the first assault targeting Christians in Cairo since the ouster of Egypt's Islamist president

Two girls aged eight and 12 were among those killed in Sunday's attack at the Church of the Virgin in Cairo's working class neighbourhood of Al-Warrak, officials said.

The four victims belonged to one family, relatives said.

Seventeen others were maimed in the attack.

Witnesses recounted how celebrations quickly turned into horror as the attackers sped towards the wedding party on a cycle of violence, sprayed the crowd with bullets and fled.

"It's unfair. This isn't acceptable in any religion," cried Layla Ezzat, a survivor who like many others returned to the scene of the attack to grieve.

Worshipper Ayman Moussa told AFP there had been no security at the church since June, despite several attacks against Copts around the country in the wake of president Mohammed Morsi
...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator...
's July 3 ouster by the army.
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