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This article is about 2018 Minya bus attack. For the similar terrorist incident that took place in the same place in 2017, see 2017 Minya bus attack.
2018 Minya attack
Part of the Insurgency in Egypt (2013–present)
2018 Minya bus attack is located in Egypt
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2018 Minya bus attack (Egypt)
2018 Minya bus attack is located in Middle East
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2018 Minya bus attack (Middle East)
LocationMinya, Egypt
DateNovember 2, 2018 (2018-11-02)
TargetCoptic Christians
Deaths7
Injured7

On November 2, 2018, masked gunmen opened fire on a group of Egyptian Christians traveling by bus through Minya. There was a convoy of three vehicles and two of them managed to escape. The vehicles were carrying Copts traveling from Sohag Governorate and Minya Governorate in Egypt to the Monastery of Saint Samuel the Confessor.[2][3] At least 7 people from Minya were killed while seven others are injured.[4] A similar attack near the same place had happened in 2017.[5]

Background

Main article: Persecution of Copts

Copts have faced growing persecution and sectarian violence in Egypt since the early 2010s, including several in the last two years, all claimed by the Islamic State.

A similiar attack happened on May 26, 2017, when masked gunman opened fire on a convoy carrying Copts in the same route of this attack, killing 29 people and wounding 22 others.[6]

On December 29, 2017, a gunman killed at least 11 people in attacks on a Coptic Orthodox church and a Christian-owned shop near Cairo before he was wounded and arrested. [7]

On 9 April 2017, Palm Sunday, terrorists bombed two Coptic churches—St. George's Church in the northern Egyptian city of Tanta on the Nile delta, and Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral, the principal church in Alexandria—killing 47 people and injuring at least 126 others.[8]

On 11 December 2016, a suicide bomber killed 29 people and injured 47 others at St. Peter and St. Paul's Church (commonly known as El-Botroseya Church[9])

Attack

Response

See also

References

  1. ^ "داعش يعلن مسؤوليته عن هجوم المنيا في مصر | أخبار سكاي نيوز عربية". skynewsarabia.com. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
  2. ^ "الأقباط متحدون -راهب بدير الانبا صموئيل المعترف يروي تفاصيل الحادث". Retrieved 2 November 2018.
  3. ^ "Egypt: Deadly attack on Coptic Christians". BBC News. 2 November 2018. Retrieved 2 November 2018 – via www.bbc.com.
  4. ^ "Coptic Christian attack: Funerals in Egypt for seven murdered pilgrims".
  5. ^ Raghavan, Sudarsan; Mahfouz, Heba Farouk (2 November 2018). "Gunmen in Egypt attack bus carrying Christians, killing at least 8 and wounding 13". Washington Post.
  6. ^ "ISIS claims responsibility for killing 29 Coptic Christians in Egypt". Nine.com.au. Retrieved 28 May 2017.
  7. ^ Gunman kills 11 in attacks on Coptic church, Christian-owned shop in Egypt
  8. ^ "Egypt Cabinet OKs state of emergency after Palm Sunday church bombings". CNN. 10 April 2017. Retrieved 2017-05-26. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |authors= ignored (help)
  9. ^ Chappell, Bill (11 December 2016). "Bomb Hits Coptic Christian Church In Cairo, Killing At Least 25". NPR.
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