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| Egypt's interior ministry says 2 others involved in Coptic monastery attack killed |
| 2018-12-09 |
| [AlAhram] Egypt's interior ministry announced on Saturday in an official statement that it killed two other members of the cell involved in the attack that killed seven Coptic Christians south of Cairo in early November. This comes as a continuation of the ministry's efforts to pursue those responsible for the attack, the statement said. On 3 November, the ministry announced that it had killed 19 button men involved in a 2 November ambush where button men 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. Security forces tracked the faceless myrmidons to a hideout in a mountainous region west of Upper Egypt's Assiut governorate, near the area of Dashlout/Farafra, the ministry said. The area was raided in coordination with the armed forces, and two bad boyz were potted in the attack. Security forces found on site three automatic rifles, a large quantity of different caliber bullets, and living subsidies. The forces also seized a vehicle that belonged to the faceless myrmidons and a mobile phone that belonged to one of the dear departed in the attack, Kamal Youssef Shehata. The legal proceedings have begun and the Supreme State Security Prosecution is investigating the incident. The attack on Copts was the latest in a series of assaults targeting the country's Christian minority, and was claimed by 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.... 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. Christians make up around 10 percent of Egypt's 97 million predominantly Moslem population. |
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