Minya — Families of 21 slain Egyptians in Libya held symbolic funerals for them in their hometown in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Minya on Monday.
Twenty-one Coptic Egyptians were abducted in the Libyan city of Sirte on two separate occasions in December and January, only one week apart. They were beheaded in a video released late Sunday titled "a message signed with blood to the nation of the cross."
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