CAIRO - At least ten people were killed and 110 were injured in clashes between Coptic Christians and Muslims occurred in Salafi Moqqatam night in the district of Cairo. The death toll was announced by the Ministry of Health. Formerly a priest had spoken of six deaths among the Copts. THE VIDEO The incidents erupted after three days in protest of the Copts to the burning of their church took place last Friday at Atfih, south of Cairo.
Yesterday, the Christians, who in the district of Moqqatam are the majority, found themselves again in the forecourt of the public broadcasting. At the same time a group of Salafists has created a demonstration under the government offices, pulling the ball back in case of a young Christian, married to a Coptic religious, which would disappear after converting to Islam, formerly used by Al Qaeda as an excuse to justify the massacres against Christians in Iraq.
"They were all killed by blows of a firearm - he told the priest Semaan Ibrahim - even the wounded were met by bullets." According to the religious protesters were attacked by "criminals and Salafis" armed, who also burned down homes and shops. The Egyptian site 'al-Youm al-Saba' talk of clashes in other parts of the city, as Al Qala and Sayda Aisha, and about fifty wounded hospitalized in six different hospitals in the Egyptian capital.
The Coptic activist and lawyer Naghib Gabrail reported this morning that four thousand protesters gathered outside the headquarters of state television, where stationed for four days and nights. Sources of the security apparatus have revealed that during the night was released on Coptic religious arrested on charges of falsifying documents of the woman converted to Islam.
Whose release was one of the demands of the protesters. 
Yesterday, the Christians, who in the district of Moqqatam are the majority, found themselves again in the forecourt of the public broadcasting. At the same time a group of Salafists has created a demonstration under the government offices, pulling the ball back in case of a young Christian, married to a Coptic religious, which would disappear after converting to Islam, formerly used by Al Qaeda as an excuse to justify the massacres against Christians in Iraq.
"They were all killed by blows of a firearm - he told the priest Semaan Ibrahim - even the wounded were met by bullets." According to the religious protesters were attacked by "criminals and Salafis" armed, who also burned down homes and shops. The Egyptian site 'al-Youm al-Saba' talk of clashes in other parts of the city, as Al Qala and Sayda Aisha, and about fifty wounded hospitalized in six different hospitals in the Egyptian capital.
The Coptic activist and lawyer Naghib Gabrail reported this morning that four thousand protesters gathered outside the headquarters of state television, where stationed for four days and nights. Sources of the security apparatus have revealed that during the night was released on Coptic religious arrested on charges of falsifying documents of the woman converted to Islam.
Whose release was one of the demands of the protesters.
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