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Gunmen in Egypt Attack Bus Carrying Coptic Christians
Unknown gunmen opened fire on a bus carrying Coptic Christians to a monastery in the southern Egypt, local media reports said, killing at least 20 people, in the latest attack on the minority Christian community.
The bus was headed to the monastery in the city of Minya, some 190 miles south of the capital Cairo, Al Ahram newspaper quoted unnamed security officials as saying.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, which follows suicide bombings at two Coptic churches on Palm Sunday in which at least 45 worshipers were killed.
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