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Monday, January 5, 2015
Reports out of the Libyan city of Sirte have 13 Egyptians being kidnapped, which brings the total of Egyptians nabbed in the neighboring country to 20; the other seven going missing in late-December.
Egypt’s state news agency MENA said the 13 kidnapped were Coptic Christians. The country’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Sameh Shoukry, met with senior church officials on January 3 amid efforts to solve the crisis, MENA reported.
Magdy Malik, a Christian activist in Egypt, said that gunmen stormed a residence for expatriates in Sirte and abducted the thirteen Copts.
This attack on Egyptian Copts is not the first; they have often been targeted in Libya since long time dictator Muammar Qaddafi was ousted. In February 2014 seven Egyptian Christians were found shot execution-style on a beach in eastern Libya.
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