Kidnapping of 4 Copts from mountainous region in al-Minyā Province

Sources reveal that masked assailants kidnapped 4 Copts when they were getting in a taxi in the mountainous region near the village of Dīr Jabal al-Tīr in the Samālūt area of northern al-Minyā. Security forces are reportedly intensifying and widening their investigation, though they have not yet been successful in determining the identity of the victims or their places of residence.

(18 May, 2015. al-Fajr. Muhammad al-Miniyāwī).

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