Nineteen Islamic militants have been killed by Egyptian security forces, following an attack that claimed the lives of seven Coptic Christians on two buses near a monastery late last week.
Egyptian authorities have revealed that they followed the attackers into the desert area west of Minya province, where a shoot-out occurred that ended with 19 members of the Islamic State terror group dead.
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