A young Coptic woman in a suburb of Cairo disappeared, on 5 June, from an area where Muslim attacks against Christians have surged.
Suzan Ashraf Rawy, 22, left for work by foot from her home in Al Khosous, but never arrived at the Coptic Orthodox church where she is employed. ‘When she did not return home that evening, her mother called the church’, an area Christian leader said. ‘That is when she discovered Suzan did not arrive at the church in the morning. It is expected that she has been abducted.’
The alleged abduction would be the third kidnapping in the area of Al Khosous, a predominantly Christian town on the outskirts of Cairo, since the accidental shooting of a Muslim on 30 May.
Two others
Two other young Coptic Christian women disappeared without trace after the incident. The families of the women suspected to have been kidnapped have received no communication from alleged kidnappers.
Area Muslims have long disfigured Christian women for not wearing veils by throwing acid on them, but there has been a surge in such attacks in recent weeks.
