Over 20 Coptic Christians have been killed in an attack on a bus they were travelling on in Egypt, the State broadcaster has reported.
Bus carrying Egyptian Copts attacked by armed men, over 20 people killed
The privately owned Copts United news portal said the attack by gunmen took place in Upper Egypt’s Beni Suef governorate.
Copts who are a minority in the north African country have been the target of extremist attacks recently.
The government last week arraigned a number of suspects before the court over the April 9 attack on two churches in Alexandria and Tanta. The attacks killed about 46 people.