An Egyptian Christian faith has been killed and five others wounded by a man who opened fire Tuesday, January 11 aboard a train south of Cairo. The shooter was a police officer, boarded a car in the town of Samalut, midway between the Egyptian capital and largest city of Assiut. According to the Interior Ministry, he then opened fire with his service weapon, killing a passenger, Fathi Said Ebeid, 71, and wounding five people.Amer Abdel Zaher Achour, who took the train to go to work, but was not in uniform, was arrested. He was questioned about his motive for accurate and whether he did or did not for religious reasons. Four injured are Coptic Christians, confession of the fifth is not yet established, the ministry said.
According to medical sources, all wounded, including two in serious condition, are Copts. "The fool has made a return trip in the car to identify Christians. He saw a group with girls and women who were not wearing a veil, while he understood that they were Copts and he pulled shouting 'Allah Akbar' (God is greatest), "he told Bishop Morcos, the bishopric of Samalut, after meeting the wounded.
Hundreds of angry Copts gathered in the evening on the outskirts of the Hospital of the Good Shepherd, Samalut, where the wounded were being treated. Clashes took place with police who fired teargas, witnesses said. The investigation was entrusted to the floor of the governorate of Minya.
The shooting occurred in a tense atmosphere on the issue of security of Christians in Egypt after the attack in the New Year's Eve against a Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, who made twenty-one dead. This attack was not claimed, and the investigation is still ongoing. He was committed after two months of threats by an Iraqi group linked to al-Qaida against the Christians of Egypt.
The Copts, mostly Orthodox, with a minority of Catholics, represent 6-10% of the estimated 80 million Egyptians, mostly Sunni Muslims. Sometimes deadly incidents have occurred repeatedly in recent years in Egypt between Copts and Muslims, often because of tensions between local communities.
On January 6, 2010, six Copts were killed in a shooting at Naga Hammadi in Upper Egypt, the output of a mass. The verdict of the alleged murderers, much anticipated by the Coptic community, must be made on January 16.
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