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Three people, including a girl aged eight, died when gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on a wedding party outside a Coptic Christian church in Cairo.
At least nine others were wounded in the attack in Giza, officials said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
Egypt's Coptic Christian community has been targeted by some Islamists who accuse the Church of backing the army's overthrow of President Mohammed Morsi in July. The Coptic Orthodox Church is one of Christianity's oldest, founded in Alexandria around 50 AD.
Christians make up at least 10% of the population in Egypt, or well over eight million people.
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Turbineguy
(37,365 posts)and shooting some will make the rest not back the Army?
JI7
(89,264 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)Seriously join the 21st century, Middle-East.