Following Friday’s tragic events in which seven were killed and many were wounded after unknown gunmen shot at a bus transporting a group of Coptic Christians in Egypt’s Minya governorate, Egyptian authorities have dispatched prosecutors at the site of the terrorist attack for investigation. According to local media outlets, Egypt’s prosecutor-general Nabil Sadek instructed northern Minya and members of Supreme State Security to the site of the attack in a bid to listen to survivor’s testimonies. The gunmen are still at large, with authorities focusing at finding them. How did the attack unfold?Although accounts of the events are numerous, the official spokesperson of the church stated that gunmen ambushed a microbus and bus transporting Coptic Christians worshipers near the Monastery of Saint Samuel the Confessor in Upper Egypt’s Minya on Friday.The attack is perceived as a terrorist attack for which the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or Daesh in the Arabic language, took responsibility for according to its Amaq news service.Egypt’s Interior Ministry has claimed that, due to security and safety instructions, the main road leading to the monastery had been closed which prompted the bus use a back road. The gunmen also…
UPDATE: Children Among Minya Attack Victims, Egypt Orders Investigation
November 3, 2018
