Bishop Dawūd Ibrāhīm, the priest of the church, stated that the attack happened in a few minutes and the bishops assisted in calming the people in the Church as soon as gunshots were heard. He added that the church was not targeted, but the people in it were. He stated that terrorists do not differentiate between a mosque and church (‘Abd al-Wahāb Sha’nān and Muhsin Silīm, al-Wafd, Oct. 22, p. 3). Read original text in Arabic.