Arson mobs in Egypt turn rage on Christians
WHEN a furious Muslim mob burst into the largely Christian area around his home in Minya, 150 miles south of Cairo, Alexander Tawss, 60, a barber, grabbed his gun and fired in the air to try to scare them away.
It proved a fatal error.
“They took offence at the fact that a Christian fired in the air against them, and they stormed his home and shot him to death before taking his body away and hacking it into parts,” Ayoub Youssef, 40, a Coptic Christian priest, said yesterday.
Then the mob dumped Tawss’s remains in a graveyard.
“We have not been able to visit the graveyard to collect his body parts and to this day he has not been given a burial,” Youssef said.