A Coptic Christian
teacher
in Egypt,
allegedly shot by the teenage brother of
one of his students, died on April 8, seven
days after the shooting.
Ashraf Alahm Atef Hanna was an English
teacher at Marzouk Prep School in the village of Marzouk in Minya Province.
According to human rights activists and
local media sources, the teacher caught one
of his students smoking in class. When the
teacher told the boy to stop smoking, the
Muslim student cursed at the teacher and
insulted him in front of class.
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