Tens of Egyptians Killed and Scores Others Injured in Terrorist Attack in Minya Province

CAIRO- At least 26 Egyptians were killed and scores others were injured in a terrorist attack on a bus carrying 40 people in the Egyptian province of Minya.

According to Reuters, Masked gunmen attacked a group of Coptic Christians in southern Egypt on Friday, killing 26 people and wounding 26 others as they were driving to a monastery, medical sources and eyewitnesses said.

The group was traveling in two buses and a small truck in Minya province, which is home to a sizeable Christian minority, the sources said.

 Provincial governor Essam al-Bedaiwy said earlier that 23 people had been killed and 25 wounded.

Eyewitnesses said the Copts were attacked as they were going to pray at the monastery of Saint Samuel the Confessor in the western part of the province.

They said masked men stopped the vehicles on a road leading to the monastery and opened fire.

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