Child wounded in gunmen attack in Egypt taken to hospital

Record ID: 875965

  • Title: Child wounded in gunmen attack in Egypt taken to hospital
  • Date: 26th May 2017
  • Summary: MAGHAGHA HOSPITAL IN MINYA, EGYPT (MAY 26, 2017) (REUTERS) WOUNDED CHILD BEING CARRIED ON STRETCHER AND TAKEN TO HOSPITAL
  • Embargoed: 9th June 2017 13:47
  • Keywords: Saint Samuel the Confessor in Minya province monastery in southern Egypt group of Coptic Christians wounded in Egypt
  • Location: MAGHAGHA HOSPITAL IN MINYA, EGYPT
  • City: MAGHAGHA HOSPITAL IN MINYA, EGYPT
  • Country: Egypt
  • Topics: Bombing (non-military),Conflicts/War/Peace
  • Reuters ID: LVA0016IH6QFB
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: A young boy, one of the 25 people wounded in a gunmen attack in southern Egypt, was taken to the Maghagha hospital in Minya on Friday (May 26).
    Gunmen attacked buses and a truck taking a group of Coptic Christians to a monastery in southern Egypt on Friday, killing 26 people and wounding 25 others, witnesses and the Health Ministry said.
    Eyewitnesses said masked men stopped the two buses and a truck and opened fire on a road leading to the monastery of Saint Samuel the Confessor in Minya province, which is home to a sizeable Christian minority.
    An Interior Ministry spokesman said the unidentified gunmen had arrived in three four-wheel-drive vehicles. Security forces launched a hunt for the attackers, setting up dozens of checkpoints and patrols on the desert road.
    There was no immediate claim of responsibility for Friday's attack.
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