国际英语资讯:Feature: Teen boy evinces bravery as father bleeding in Minya anti-Copt attack_时事

国际英语资讯:Feature: Teen boy evinces bravery as father bleeding in Minya anti-Copt attack

CAIRO, May 27 -- Marco Ayed Habib, an Egyptian 14-year-old boy in the third grade of preparatory school, was carefree while riding his father's pickup car along with his younger brother Mina and several other workers, heading to visit a monastery on the desert highway in Upper Egypt's Minya province.

It never crossed his little, innocent mind that the trip will turn into a tragedy with his farther being one of about 30 victims who were gunned down by terrorists on Friday. Marco survived to become an eyewitness yet he couldn't help his tears while narrating the story.

"Two men stopped our car for a ride at the desert highway. Ahead of the monastery before we got off, they confronted us, asked my father for his ID card and before he gave it to them, they shot him with three bullets. I have seen it," the boy tearfully told Xinhua while rubbing his eyes.

Marco said that the terrorists all together were more than a dozen or maybe 15, disguised in military uniform, and they had video cameras to record the deadly attack on Friday on a bus and two cars heading to Saint Samuel Monastery in Maghagha.

After his farther was shot and the perpetrators were preparing to escape, the boy bravely sneaked into his father's vehicle and made a phone call to his uncle back in his village of Dayr Jarnous for help.

"Marco is the hero of the tragedy, as he is the only one who could go back to the car and call us for help," his uncle Mamdouh Youssef Michael told Xinhua near the altar of the Sacred Family Church of Dayr Jarnous, where a funeral for several victims was held.