| 2018 Minya bus attack | |
|---|---|
| Part of theInsurgency in Egypt (2013–present) | |
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| Location | Minya,Egypt |
| Date | November 2, 2018; 7 years ago (2018-11-02) |
| Target | Coptic Christians |
| Deaths | 7 |
| Injured | 12[1] |
| Perpetrators | Islamic State |
| Assailants | 19 militants (all killed two days later by police)[2] |
On 2 November 2018, masked gunmen opened fire on a group of Egyptian Christians travelling by bus throughMinya. There was a convoy of three vehicles and two of them managed to escape. The vehicles were carryingCopts traveling fromSohag Governorate andMinya Governorate inEgypt to theMonastery of Saint Samuel the Confessor.[3][4] At least 7 people fromMinya were killed while 12[1][5] others were injured.[6] Asimilar attack near the same place had happened in 2017.[7]
Copts have faced growingpersecution and sectarian violence in Egypt since the early 2010s, including several in the last two years, all claimed by the Islamic State.
Asimilar attack happened on 26 May 2017, when masked gunman opened fire on a convoy carryingCopts in the same route of this attack, killing 29 people and wounding 22 others.[8]
On 29 December 2017, a gunman killed at least 11 people inattacks on a Coptic Orthodox church and a Christian-owned shop nearCairo before he was wounded and arrested.[9]
On 9 April 2017, Palm Sunday, terroristsbombed two Coptic churches — St. George's Church in the northern Egyptian city ofTanta on theNile Delta, andSaint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral, the principal church inAlexandria — killing 47 people and injuring at least 126 others.[10]
On 11 December 2016,a suicide bomber killed 29 people and injured 47 others atSt. Peter and St. Paul's Church (commonly known as El-Botroseya Church[11])
On 2 November 2018, three buses leftMonastery of Saint Samuel the Confessor carryingCoptic Christians on their way to Minya. The Buses were ambushed by Islamic state fighters around Minya. During the ambush, the first two buses managed to escape with 12 injured passengers however the third bus was unable to escape the ambush and was forced to come to a stop. Seven civilians on board the bus were killed.[12][13]
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Two days later, 19 militants involved in the attack were killed in a shoot-out with the police.[2]
Pope Francis prayed for the victims in his SundayAngelus Address, subsequent to the killings.[14]
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