Planted in the house of the LORD, they shall flourish in the courts of our God. (Psalms 92:14)

In a continuation of violence carried out against the Christian population in Egypt, three people, including an eight year old girl, was were shot dead on Sunday after a group of masked gunmen on motorcycles opened fire outside a church, according to Arutz7.

At least nine others were wounded in the attack in the Giza neighborhood of the city, officials said, according to the BBC.

Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi said in a statement on Monday that the attack on Sunday night was a “callous and criminal act.”

He said such attacks will “not succeed in sowing divisions between the nation’s Muslims and Christians.”

No group has thus far claimed responsibility for the attack. The gunmen had reportedly begun to fire indiscriminately at the people leaving the house of worship, killing the little girl and another man instantly with another woman dying on her way to the hospital.

Coptic priest Thomas Daoud Ibrahim told Reuters he was inside the church when the gunfire erupted. Another priest, Beshay Lotfi, told Egyptian media that the church had been left without a police guard since the end of June.

Since the toppling of the Morsi government in Egypt, Christians have become a popular target of the pro-Morsi radical Islamic fighters. Churches have been burned by the dozens, Christian-owned business have been attacked and set ablaze and a number of Christians have been murdered.