AFP - Several Christian families have fled their homes in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula after receiving death threats from suspected Islamist militants, officials and residents told AFP on Friday.
Last week, flyers began circulating in the town of Rafah on the Gaza Strip border demanding that its tiny Coptic population move out, residents said.
Officials at the local church informed the authorities of the threats, but no actin was taken, they added.
Days later, a shop belonging to one of the families was fired on with automatic rifles, witnesses said.
The events prompted the families to leave Rafah but there were conflicting accounts over whether they had done so voluntarily or been evicted.
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Don’t be giving them anymore of MY TAX MONEY. Unless Congress acts, Obama will get the money to them, just as he has supported the muslim takeover of Egypt. What in the sam hill is wrong with Americans. This turkey is AN ADMITTED MUSLIM, bent on destroying the country from the inside. WHAT IS WRONG WITH AMERICANS?