tags: Attacks on Clergy, Churches, wedding attack, Mass attacks and shootings, crowd, Copt, Timeline 2013
4 killed 13 injured October 20, 2013 In Egypt, gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on a Copt wedding crowd. Four were killed including the pastor, an eight-year-old girl and the mother of the groom and a dozen others were injured at the Coptic Church of the Virgin in the Warraq district. It was the first direct shooting against Christians in the capital city of Cairo. Egypt's top Sunni cleric condemned the attack as contrary to religion and morals.
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Egypt's Leaders Condemn Deadly Attack on Copts
| Voice of America | - |
Egypt's government and religious leaders have condemned an attack outside a Coptic church in Cairo that killed four people, including an eight-year-old girl -- the latest in a rising wave of assaults targeting the country's Christian minority.
gunmen on a motorbike sprayed a crowd of wedding guests with gunfire and then escaped. Distraught residents converged on the scene.
opened fire on wedding celebrants outside a Coptic Christian church late Sunday, killing at least three people, including a young girl and the mother of the groom. About a dozen others were injured, officials and state media said.
two masked gunmen on a motorcycle fired on wedding guests outside a Coptic church in a Cairo suburb.
Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb, the top cleric at Al-Azhar, the world's primary seat of Sunni Islamic learning, also condemned the attack in a statement Monday, calling it "a criminal act that runs contrary to both religion and morals.
Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb, the top cleric at Al-Azhar, the world's primary seat of Sunni Islamic learning, also condemned the attack in a statement Monday, calling it "a criminal act that runs contrary to both religion and morals.
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