Thousands attended a funeral service on Friday for those killed in an attack after gunmen targeted a group of Coptic Christians travelling to a monastery in central Egypt, killing 28.

The funeral turned into an angry protest against what mourners said was the authorities’ failure to protect Christians

“What more are we going to see from Sisi? What more are we going to see from him? What more is he going to do? Enough is enough,” a mourner said.

A male mourner said, “Every day they kill us. Why is that? What have we done? What have we done? Every day they kill us. Are they going to kill us every day? Why is this happening? The Botroseya and those who were killed in Libya and then the monastery. What’s happening? Where’s the government? The police were standing outside and didn’t want to enter [the site].”

A woman at the funeral, however, left vengeance to God.

“God will avenge us. God is the one who will avenge us. Those who died are our brothers. They’re all our brothers. They aren’t strangers to us. We’re all one village and one family here,” she said.
Eyewitnesses said masked men opened fire after stopping the Christians, who were in a bus and other vehicles on a desert road.

Local TV channels showed a bus apparently raked by gunfire and smeared with blood.