One of the vehicles attacked was a minibus carrying a group of children from the Church of the Virgin in Bani Sweif, a province north of Minya.

"They opened fire randomly on all of its passengers. Many children are among the dead,” said Mikhail Ayoub, a Coptic church official. A two-year-old and a four-year-old were reportedly killed.

Egyptian media published photographs of three young boys who survived the attack, showing them wide-eyed with shock and covered in what may have been blood. One young boy still clung to his dead mother’s handbag.

"We are trying to calm them down. A girl has lost her parents and aunt. Another child, in front of me now, holds his mother's hand bag and doesn't know yet that she is dead,” Mr Ayoub said,

Many members of one family were killed on a bus as they travelled from their home village to a baptism at the monastery, Nabil Kamel Abdel Shahid, the bus owner, told The Telegraph.

Mr Shahid drove to the scene on a motorcycle shortly after the attack to find the bus riddled with bullets and carnage all around. “It was a horrible scene, the heads of some people were destroyed and their brains were out. Others were lying dead inside and outside the bus, on the side of the road and under the bus,” he said.

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