Cairo - Egyptian Member of Parliament Abdel Rahim Ali stressed the need for referring the cases related to terrorism to military courts. He added, on his Facebook page, that such cases should be referred to military courts, saying that it is an urgent need. Masked gunmen attacked a group of Coptic Christians in southern Egypt on Friday, killing 26 people and wounding 26 others as they were driving to a monastery, medical sources and eyewitnesses said. The group was traveling in two buses and a small truck in Minya province, which is home to a sizeable Christian minority, the sources said. Provincial governor Essam Al-Bedaiwy said earlier that 23 people had been killed and 25 wounded, yet the death toll has been confirmed to be 26 people.