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Grief, rage in Egyptian church after Copts attacked by gunmen
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 28 - 05 - 2017

Thousands of Christians, weeping and praying, gathered at a church in this small southern Egyptian village to mourn seven of their community who were among the more than two dozen Christians shot dead by unidentified gunmen earlier on Friday.
Their grief quickly turned to anger as funeral prayers at the Church of the Sacred Family in the village of Dayr Jarnous became a protest march with young men chanting.
"With blood and soul, we will defend you!" they yelled. "We will avenge them or die like them," they said.
Gunmen attacked a group of Coptic Christians traveling to a monastery in central Egypt on Friday, killing at least 29 people and wounding 24, with many children among the victims.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, which came on the eve of Ramadan.
Eyewitnesses said three vehicles were attacked. A bus and a car transporting children and families to the monastery of Saint Samuel the Confessor were the initial targets.
The gunmen fired at the windows then boarded the vehicles, shooting dead all the men and firing at the feet of the women and children. They also took all the gold the women were carrying, eyewitnesses said. Some children were killed.
When one of the gunmen's vehicles had a flat tyre, they stopped a truck carrying Christian workers, shot them and took their truck.
One of the gunmen had a camera, eyewitnesses said, indicating that the group behind the shootings might release footage of the attack in the future.
Safwat Bushra, an eyewitness from Edwa — a small town which like Dayr Jarnous lies in the province of Minya that is home to a sizable Christian minority — said he saw the shooting from the road where he was driving that morning.
A three-year-old and a four-year-old were killed, Bushra added.
Seven of the 29 Christians killed came from Dayr Jarnous. Bishop Agathon, Bishop of the Maghagha and Edwa Diocese, led the funeral prayers which were spoken in Coptic, the last living descendant of the ancient Egyptian language.
Women dressed in black wept and wailed, some even slapped themselves on the face. One woman whose father was killed had a nervous breakdown and had to be carried away from the church by others.
Even the boy and girl scouts charged with organizing the prayers and responsible for internal security in the church were crying.
"Did they deserve this? They were just going to work and then were killed," said one crying woman, who did not give her name, referring to the Christian workers. — Reuters


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