Coptic Priest Butchered In Cairo.

Coptic Priest Murdered in Brutal Stabbing by ISIS Jihadi in Cairo.

Stoyan Zaimov , Christian Post Reporter.

Coptic priest Samaan Shehta stabbed to death in Cairo, Egypt, on October 12, 2017.

A Coptic Christian priest was stabbed to death Thursday by a suspected member of the Islamic State terror group in Cairo's northeastern suburb of El–Marg. A video of the murder was posted online.

Egypt Independent reported that the priest, Samaan Shehta, was attacked by a "young unemployed man" in front of his vehicle and was then hit in the head with a cleaver before the assailant ran away.

"It is believed that it is a hate crime that has been executed by an extremist affiliated to IS or Salafism," a local journalist said.