Egypt gunmen open fire on Coptic Christian wedding in Cairo

Masked gunmen on motorcycles have opened fire on a wedding party at a Coptic church in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, killing three people including an eight-year old girl.

A priest at the church said it had been left unguarded by police since June.

The country’s Interior Ministry says a man and a woman were also killed.

The motive for the attack is unknown, but the church priest accuses the gunmen of targeting all of Egypt, not just Christians.

Witnesses say there was a lot of traffic outside the church when the motorbike and a car approached the crowd outside the church. The car stopped and the gunman on the motorcycle started shooting and ran away.

Egypt has been in turmoil since a July military coup ousted the country’s president Mohammed Morsi.