Church spokesman Bouls Halim said the death toll is likely to rise. Local church officials in Minya province put the death toll at 10, but the higher figure could not be confirmed.
No group immediately claimed the attack south of the capital Cairo, which bore the hallmarks of Islamic State militants who have for years been fighting security forces in the Sinai peninsula and along Egypt’s porous desert border with Libya.
Archbishop Angaelos, the Coptic Archbishop of London, told Premier: “We pray for the those who continue to plan and perpetrate these attacks because it’s only in them seeing the true effects of what they’re doing and looking at those who are mourning – that will change their minds.”
It is the second attack on pilgrims heading to the St Samuel the Confessor monastery in as many years. The previous attack in May last year left nearly 30 people dead.
PRAYER ALERT: Please pray for our church family in #Egypt, where at least seven Christians have been killed and nine injured in an attack on a bus convoy in Minya today. Armed terrorists opened fire on two buses as they were leaving Saint Samuel’s monastery.
— Open Doors UK ن (@OpenDoorsUK) November 2, 2018
The Interior Ministry, which oversees the police, said the attackers used secondary dirt roads to reach the bus carrying the pilgrims, who were near the monastery at the time of the assault.
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