The First Mass Shooting Incident in Egypt !!

This is for sure the first mass shooting incident in Egypt ; a driver working in Arab Contractors company has opened his fire killing 6 and injuring 16 of his coworkers !!
The incident happened in the bus which he was driving at the Misr-Asuit agricultural highway . He was supposedly driving the workers from 15th May area in Cairo governorate to Abu Nomrs area in 6th October governorate !!
The early reports say that he killed and injured those people because he was transferred !! The shooter did not commit suicide and was arrested while the injured were transferred to the hospital.
Taking a gun to your work in that way means that you have planned to the whole thing in advance , it is not a sudden reaction. Another thing , one must wonder how he got a gun in the first place , Egypt is not the United States and there are strict official rules to get a gun officially , of course unofficially you can buy a gun from Upper Egypt in no one time.
This is not Egypt nor these are not the Egyptians.
Updates 
  • The death toll reached 8 
  • The shooter will be facing : Intended murder and owning a machine gun 
  • There are different stories about why the driver opened his fire : 
  1. He was depressed because he was transferred to another branched "debunked by the company , the man's record has been clean for 24 years in the company. 
  2. The salary of the shooter is not more than LE 300 despite the claims of company that his salary is LE1300 which is highly doubtful. 
  3. He opened his fire due to arguments with some of his coworkers in the bus over antiquities excavation according to police investigations , it seems that he agreed to let two coworkers to excavate under his house.
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