CAIRO: An Egyptian Coptic Christian shot at his sister and her family, killing her husband, after she converted to Islam and married a Muslim, a security official said on Tuesday.
Rami Atef Khella, 28, broke into the Cairo apartment of his sister, Miriam Atef Khella, and sprayed her family of three with gunfire, killing Ahmed Saleh and injuring Miriam and her daughter, the official said.
The official said Khella had been searching for his sister for about two years, after she left her home province with her Muslim husband and came to Cairo.
Police are searching for Khella and an uncle who accompanied him to his sister s home and fled the scene after the attack, the official said.
Egypt s Copts – the largest Christian community in the Middle East – account for an estimated six to 10 percent of the country s 80 million inhabitants and complain of discrimination and harassment.
Last week, a Copt was shot dead when Muslims and Copts fought in a town in southern Egypt after a Muslim was accused of flirting with a Coptic girl. -AFP
