The perpetrators had attacked Copts’ homes and shops, setting fire to five Coptic houses while chanting hostile slogans against them, and burnt and looted St. George Church’s service building.
Since the attacks, many of the village’s Copts have migrated for fear of continued assault.
Delga has a population of 120,000, of which Copts make up roughly 17 percent. As a small minority, those who remain in the village now refuse to discuss the incident, due to the surveillance imposed on them by Muslim locals, and even those who would speak to our correspondent refused to identify or name any of the perpetrators.