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2017 Minya bus attack
The 2017 Minya bus attack killed at least 33 Coptic Christians traveling to a monastery in Egypt, an attack claimed by ISIS. The 2020 opening's descriptor line read "Terrorist attack on a convoy carrying Copts to the Monastery of Saint Samuel the Confessor in Egypt." Today's descriptor reads simply "Attack in Egypt," though terror survives 14 times in the body. A reader today does not learn from the opening that this was classified as a terrorist attack.
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Machine-checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01. “terror” appeared 2 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 14.
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The opening as it read in 2020
Terrorist attack on a convoy carrying Copts to the Monastery of Saint Samuel the Confessor in Egypt This article is about 2017 Minya bus attack.1 On 26 May 2017, masked gunmen opened fire on a convoy carrying Copts from Maghagha in Egypt 's Minya Governorate to the Monastery of Saint Samuel the Confessor , killing at least 28 people and injuring 22 others.
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Today
“terror” appeared 2 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 14. Read the current article and compare.
| 2020 | Oct '23 | 2025 | |
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| terror | 1 | 0 | 0 |
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