An Egyptian pharmacist was arrested in connection with the stabbing to death of a Christian woman on February 8.
Madeleine Wagih, 35, was working alone in Mahaba Pharmacy in Kom Ombo, a Nile River city of about 60,000 people in southern Egypt. A man charged into the shop, brandishing a pocketknife. He stabbed Wagih in the throat, severing an artery. She bled to death quickly, said the Rev. Rofael Rizk, a Coptic Orthodox priest in Kom Ombo.
The attacker burst out of the pharmacy, and stabbed Marian Kamal Shafik, 18, in her back, near her shoulder. He yelled: ‘You Christians deserve more than that!’, then jumped into a waiting car and sped away, Rizk said. Shafik was treated at a hospital and released.
