The Governorate of Minya has become a safe heaven for gangs of kidnappers according to news reports. All of the kidnapped persons were Copts. The gangs demand amounts of money as ransom. In Mallawī unknown persons have kidnapped a housewife. Her name is Nadia, wife of 'Ādel Shākir. Furthermore, 33-year-old Ashraf Subhī and 28-year-old Majdī Fāyiz have been kidnapped (Islām Fahmī, al-Watan, Feb. 14. p. 8). Read original text in Arabic here.