Shooting
Open on the mapGunmen open fire on buses carrying Coptic Christians in Minya Governorate, Egypt, killing at least 28 people and injuring dozens more
26 May 2017 · 28.74° N, 30.62° E
What the records say
- When
- 26 May 2017
- Kind
- Shooting
- Coordinates
- 28.74° N, 30.62° E
- Description
- Gunmen open fire on buses carrying Coptic Christians in Minya Governorate, Egypt, killing at least 28 people and injuring dozens more.
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, 2017 Minya bus attack.
3 sources record it
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “attentat contre des pèlerins en Égypte”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Arabic), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “هجوم إرهابي في المنيا في دير الأنبأ صمويل المعترف يسفر عن مقتل 29 شخص وإصابة 22 شخص آخر”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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