The Islamic State, also known as ISIS, claimed credit on its Amaq news service. A video circulating on Facebook from the site of the attack showed a man slumped over the steering wheel of a bus. Ambulances carrying three people seriously injured in the attack pulled into Cairo’s Sheikh Zayed Specialized Hospital on Friday evening. By that account, masked gunmen riding a pair of small, off-road vehicles stopped the buses as they left the monastery. The same desert road was the site of an almost identical attack in May 2017.

Source: New York Times November 02, 2018 17:02 UTC