A court in southern Egypt today convicted and sentenced to death a Muslim man for his part in last year’s Christmas drive-by shooting outside a church that left six Christians and a Muslim guard dead.

The suspects in a drive-by shooting that killed seven people outside an Egyptian church on Coptic Christmas Eve are to be tried in an emergency state security court.

Three men in a car sprayed automatic gunfire into a crowd of churchgoers in southern Egypt as they left a midnight Mass for Coptic Christmas, killing at least seven people.