Media secretary of al-Dustūr Party in Mallawī of Minya, Muhammad Khayrī, related what happened on Jul. 3 when a group of Islamists marched toward a lounge belonging to the Coptic Catholic Church in Diljā village, looted what is inside and smashed it and smashed the church priest's private car. Then they set the lounge on fire.

Khayrī added that police forces could not reach the village that has a population of 90,000, in which less than 6 percent are Christians. The attackers increased in numbers and tried to loot and burn Christian houses. They succeeded in burning around 25 to 30 houses.

A Christian who had a machine gun shot seven attackers, one of who died and two others were wounded. The followers of the dead attacker responded by bulldozing the Christian man’s house (Peter Majdī, al-Tahrīr, Jul. 5, p. 9). The article has no link online.