Posted on 12/30/2012 10:36:31 AM PST by BlackVeil
An explosion near the Coptic Orthodox Church in Misrata late yesterday evening killed one Egyptian man and left another three injured.
The explosion, reported to have been caused by a bomb, targeted a services building connected to the church in the city of Misrata, killing the Egyptian national and wounding three others at the same time.
News broke this morning when the Egyptian embassy in Tripoli received a call from Bishop Timotheus Bishara Adla, head of the church in the Libyan captital, informing them that the church building in Misrata had been targeted by an explosion, Foreign Ministry spokesman Amru Rushdi said today.
Egypt’s chargé d’affaires in Libya, Hatim Abdel Qader, immediately contacted the Father Marcus Zaghloul, head of the church in Misrata, to check on the welfare of the other church members. The embassy’s consul in Misrata, Tariq Dahroug, also visited the church to inspect the damage.
Staff at the Egyptian embassy in Tripoli have contacted the Interior and Foreign Ministries to hold urgent discussions about improving security arrangements around Coptic churches in Libya.
At the moment, it is not known who targeted the church or why they carried out the attack in Misrata yesterday.
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Not to worry, they’re only Christians.
The Christian God and his Angels are keeping notes! A terrible retribution is coming to Egypt. Praise God that only one lost his life. He will not be the first nor is he the last to fall in this new turn of events. No more money to such evil doers! Let the fanatics starve .
Thanks BlackVeil.
Regrettably, it is now reported that two are killed, and several very badly injured. It was a large explosion, and very threatening to all of the small Coptic community in Libya.
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