Coptic Christian Priest Killed In Egypt, Mina Aboud Sharween Shot In Northern Sinai

Paul Taylor | 06 July 2013

BOfflFqCYAA4aq9.jpg-largeCAIRO, July 6 (Reuters) – Gunmen shot dead a Coptic Christian priest in Egypt’s lawless Northern Sinai on Saturday in what could be the first sectarian attack since the military overthrow of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi, security sources said.

The priest, Mina Aboud Sharween, was attacked in the early afternoon while walking in the Masaeed area in El Arish.

The shooting in the coastal city was one of several attacks believed to be by Islamist insurgents that included firing at four military checkpoints in the region, the sources said.

Saturday’s attacks on checkpoints took place in al-Mahajer and al-Safaa in Rafah, as well as Sheikh Zuwaid and al-Kharouba.

The violence follows attacks in which five police offers were killed in El Arish on Friday.

Mursi’s Muslim Brotherhood has fiercely criticised Coptic Pope Tawadros, spiritual leader of Egypt’s 8 million Christians, for giving his blessing to the removal of the president and attending the announcement by armed forces commander General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi suspending the constitution.

(Reporting by Yousri Mohamed in Ismailia; Writing by Paul Taylor; editing by Mike Collett-White and Alistair Lyon)

Source: Huffington Post

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