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| Egypt Christians clash with police after Christmas murders |
| 2010-01-07 |
| Clashes erupted on Thursday as thousands of Coptic Christians in a southern Egyptian village buried six of their number gunned down on Coptic Christmas Eve by men believed to be Muslims, security officials said. Officials and the local bishop said three men in a car had raked pedestrians with gunfire along a street containing two churches and a shopping precinct late on Wednesday. Bishop Kirilos said the victims were people who had just emerged from church after attending a Christmas Eve service, and the proximity of the shopping area might have drawn some of them to it. Six Copts and a Muslim policeman were killed, while at least nine more Copts were wounded, two of them seriously, a security official said. |
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