THREE Egyptian Coptic monks were killed in a "criminal assault" inside a Coptic monastery in South Africa, the Christian Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt said, and South African police said they were investigating a triple murder. "Three monks were subjected to a criminal assault inside our Coptic monastery," the spokesman for the Coptic Orthodox Church said in a statement posted on Facebook, without elaborating. A South African police spokesperson said that authorities were investigating the murder of three priests at a church in Cullinan, a town near Pretoria. All three victims were found with stab wounds while a fourth who…