So-called Islamic State (IS) has claimed it was behind an attack on a bus carrying Coptic Christians in Egypt that killed at least 29 people and wounded about 25 others on Friday.
Masked men boarded several vehicles carrying the Christians and opened fire at close range, witnesses said.
The bus was making its way to the Monastery of St Samuel the Confessor, 135km (85 miles) south of Cairo,
It was in a small convoy that was stopped on a desert road near a police station on the border with Beni Suef province.
The gunmen wore military uniforms and used automatic weapons before fleeing in 4X4 vehicles, eyewitnesses said.
Children were among those who died.
IS militants have targeted Copts several times in recent months. The militants killed killed a group of 21 Christians in a bomb attack on a church in Cairo in December 2016.
Two suicide bombings this year at church services in the northern cities of Alexandria and Tanta on 9 April left 46 people dead.
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