Nineteen Islamist militants accused of carrying out a deadly attack on Christians in Egypt have been killed by police, the interior ministry says.
They died in a shoot-out after police pursued “fugitive terrorist elements” into the desert area west of Minya province, the statement said.
Seven Coptic Christians were killed in an attack on two buses near a monastery in Minya on Friday.
The Islamic State (IS) group has said it carried out the attack.
It was the latest in a series of attacks by extremists on Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority.
