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CAIRO, May 26-- Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi said on Friday that the Egyptian forces hit terrorist training camps after the shooting attack that killed 28 Copts in Upper Egypt's Minya governorate. "Now, we have hit training camps used by those terrorists ... Egypt will not hesitate to target these terror camps anywhere," Sisi said in a televised speech aired by the state TV. Sisi did not mention the place of the targeted camps, but Egypt's state TV have reported that the Egyptian jets have hit 6 terror bases in neighboring Libya. Earlier on Friday, unknown gunmen opened fire on buses carrying Coptic Christians in Minya governorate, about 220 kilometers south of Cairo, killing 28 people and wounding 24. Security sources told Xinhua that some ten gunmen in three four-wheel-drive vehicles, intercepted the victims' two buses on the way to St. Samuel Monastery in the Minya governorate, and opened fire randomly at them. The source added that the attackers were dressed in security uniforms. No group yet claimed responsibility for attack that was carried one day ahead of the Muslims Holy fasting month of Ramadan. "These countries that support terrorism and provide terrorists with training and weapons must be punished," Sisi stressed. The Egyptian president revealed that the terrorists want to the break the strong Egyptian social fabric as well as the country itself. | 
