Bus Attack in Egypt Social Media
| 2018 Minya passenger vehicle attack | |
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| Part of the Insurgency in Egypt (2013–present) | |
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| Location | Minya, Arab republic of egypt |
| Date | November 2, 2018 (2018-xi-02) |
| Target | Coptic Christians |
| Deaths | seven |
| Injured | 12[1] |
| Perpetrators | Islamic Country |
| Assailants | 19 militants (all killed two days later past police)[ii] |
On November two, 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.[three] [4] At least 7 people from Minya were killed while 12[one] [5] others were injured.[6] A like attack near the same place had happened in 2017.[7]
Background [edit]
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 similar set on happened on 26 May 2017, when masked gunman opened fire on a convoy carrying Copts in the aforementioned route of this attack, killing 29 people and wounding 22 others.[viii]
On 29 December 2017, a gunman killed at least 11 people in attacks on a Coptic Orthodox church and a Christian-owned shop almost Cairo earlier he was wounded and arrested.[9]
On nine April 2017, Palm Sunday, terrorists bombed two Coptic churches — St. George'due south Church building in the northern Egyptian city of Tanta on the Nile delta, and Saint Mark'south Coptic Orthodox Cathedral, the principal church in Alexandria — killing 47 people and injuring at to the lowest degree 126 others.[ten]
On 11 December 2016, a suicide bomber killed 29 people and injured 47 others at St. Peter and St. Paul's Church (ordinarily known equally El-Botroseya Church[eleven])
Attack [edit]
On two November 2018, three buses left Monastery of Saint Samuel the Confessor conveying Coptic Christians on their way to Minya. The Buses were ambushed by Islamic land fighters around Minya. During the ambush, the beginning two buses managed to escape with 12 injured passengers all the same the third charabanc was unable to escape the ambush and was forced to come up to a stop. Seven civilians on board the coach were killed. [12] [thirteen]
Response and reactions [edit]
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Two days after, nineteen militants involved in the assail were killed in a shoot-out with the police.[ii]
Pope Francis prayed for the victims in his Sun Angelus Accost, subsequent to the killings.[xiv]
See also [edit]
- 2011 Alexandria bombing
- 2011 Imbaba church building attacks
- Botroseya Church building bombing
- Christianity in Egypt
- Coptic Orthodox Church building
- Kosheh massacres
- Nag Hammadi massacre
- 2017 Minya attack
- Persecution of Copts
References [edit]
- ^ a b "At to the lowest degree 7 killed, 12 injured in terrorist set on on coach carrying Copts in Upper Egypt's Minya - Politics - Egypt - Ahram Online". english.ahram.org.eg.
- ^ a b "Coptic Christian set on: Arab republic of egypt police 'kill 19 attackers'". BBC News . Retrieved 6 November 2018.
- ^ "الأقباط متحدون -راهب بدير الانبا صموئيل المعترف يروي تفاصيل الحادث". Retrieved two November 2018.
- ^ "Egypt: Deadly attack on Coptic Christians". BBC News. 2 November 2018. Retrieved ii November 2018 – via www.bbc.com.
- ^ "Egyptian prosecutors sent to site of terrorist attack on Copts in Minya to investigate - Politics - Egypt - Ahram Online". english language.ahram.org.eg.
- ^ "Coptic Christian attack: Funerals in Egypt for seven murdered pilgrims".
- ^ Raghavan, Sudarsan; Mahfouz, Heba Farouk (2 November 2018). "Gunmen in Egypt set on bus carrying Christians, killing at least 8 and wounding xiii". Washington Post.
- ^ "ISIS claims responsibility for killing 29 Coptic Christians in Arab republic of egypt". Ix.com.au. Retrieved 28 May 2017.
- ^ Editorial, Reuters. "Gunman kills 11 in attacks on Coptic church, Christian-owned shop..."
- ^ Joe Sterling; Sarah Sirgany; Ian Lee (x April 2017). "Egypt Cabinet OKs land of emergency after Palm Sunday church bombings". CNN . Retrieved 26 May 2017.
- ^ Chappell, Pecker (eleven Dec 2016). "Bomb Hits Coptic Christian Church building In Cairo, Killing At Least 25". NPR.
- ^ "Hundreds of Copts mourn victims of Minya's bus terrorist attack". daily news egypt. 3 November 2018. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
- ^ "7 Dead In ISIS Assail On Bus Carrying Egyptian Christians". NDTV. 3 November 2018. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
- ^ Grogan, Courtney (4 Nov 2018). "Pope Francis mourns victims of attack on Coptic Christians in Egypt". Crux Taking the Catholic Pulse. Colorado: Catholic News Agency. Retrieved iv November 2018.
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