Eyewitnesses have given a harrowing account of the murder
in Cairo of a young Coptic Christian woman, hauled out of her car and beaten
and stabbed to death by a Muslim mob, apparently targeted because of a cross
hanging from her rear-view mirror.
The incident occurred in the Cairo suburb of Ain Shams
after mosque prayer services on Friday, when police clashed with Muslim
Brotherhood supporters angered by army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s decision to
run for president.
An eyewitness appearing on “90 minutes,” a program on the
al-Mehwar satellite network, said 25-year-old Mary Sameh George was attacked in
her car near a church, where she planned to deliver medicine to an ill and
elderly woman. Protestors climbed onto her car, collapsing the roof, then
hauled her from the vehicle, beating and mauling her – to the extent, he said,
that portions of her scalp were torn off. She was stabbed multiple times, her
throat was slit and when she was dead, the mob torched her car. One Coptic
outlet said that according to the health ministry, the young woman had been
stabbed at least a dozen times. The death of Mary Sameh George received little
coverage in Egyptian newspapers. - See more at:
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