A gunman killed two Copts celebrating the New Year in an Egyptian alcohol shop early on Monday (January 1st), the latest deadly violence against the Christian minority, AFP reported.
The shooting came just three days after a gunman, identified as a wanted extremist, killed nine people in an attack on a church south of the capital.
An assailant rode up in the back of a motorcycle taxi and opened fire on the liquor store in Cairo's twin city Giza at around 1:30 a.m., when the streets were still bustling with New Year revellers, judicial and security sources said.
The store's Coptic owner survived but two of his friends who were celebrating with him were killed.
Police are still investigating the motive of the attack, the sources said.
On January 2nd last year, a Muslim slit the throat of a Coptic liquor store owner in the coastal city of Alexandria.
The assailant was sentenced to death after telling the court that he would kill all alcohol sellers if he could.
Egypt's Coptic Christians make up about 10% of the country's 93 million people, and are the largest religious minority in the region.
Dozens of Christians have been killed in church bombings and shootings claimed by the "Islamic State of Iraq and Syria" (ISIS) group's Egypt affiliate over the past year.
