Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Cairo: killed in violence between Christians and Muslims

A fire is burning at the site of clashes between Christians and Copts in Cairo. After the serious clashes between Muslims and Christians on Tuesday in Cairo to try the High Military Council, the government and the democracy movement, to reduce tensions. When violence in the slums Muqattam six Coptic Christians and five Muslims were killed, more than a hundred were injured.


The riots were sparked because Copts blocked a major road, more than 1,000 of them had protested against the burning Muqattam in a church last Friday in the small town of Sol, south of Cairo. Representatives of the democratic movement took members of the dissolved State Security for the new tensions flared up between Muslims and Christians responsible.

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