Egypt: IS claims responsibility of attack on Coptic Christians

The ISIS terror group on Saturday claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on a bus carrying Coptic Christians that left 29 people dead in Egypt, the second major attack on the country's minority community in two months. In a statement posted on its propaganda news agency, Aamaq, the terror group said one of its unit targeted the bus the previous day and put the death toll at 32.

At least eight to 10 attacker wearing military uniforms and masks attacked the bus and other vehicles taking a group of Coptic Christians to Anba Samuel monastery in the Menya Governorate, 250km south of Cairo. The victims had been on a pilgrimage to the St Samuel the Confessor monastery.