RoP Attacks at Churches in Alexandria
Charles Johnson
Fri Apr 14, 2006 at 8:40 am PDT • Views: 264
On Friday, the Islamic day of worship and Good Friday to Christians, knife-wielding Muslims stormed churches in Alexandria, Egypt, stabbing one person to death and wounding 12: One killed in Islamist attacks on Alexandria churches. (Hat tip: Big Pharaoh.)
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (AFP) - Three knife-wielding Muslims attacked worshippers at Coptic churches in Egypt’s second city of Alexandria, killing one and wounding at least 12.
The assailants, each armed with two knives, mounted almost simultaneous attacks on churchgoers in three separate neighbourhoods and were later arrested, a police official said on condition of anonymity.
“The attacker stormed the church armed with a knife and shouted ‘There is no God but Allah’ and ‘Allah is the greatest’ before stabbing the worshippers,” one of the Mar Girgis church employees told an AFP reporter on the scene.
“We closed the doors of the church as soon as he started attacking the worshippers and we fought back with sticks but he tried to flee through one of the church’s underground passages,” said the witness, who asked to be named only as Ibrahim.
An Egyptian official told CNN the Islamist attackers were “insane.”
A police official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press, characterized the men as “insane” and said they were carrying tranquilizing medication.
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