.- The violence erupted in the neighborhood of Cairo Maspero when unidentified gunmen opened fire on Christian protesters, leaving at least two people dead and 60 injured, state television reported. Christian protesters known as 'Copts' initially held a protest in front of state television building to demand greater rights for religious minorities.
However, dozens of unidentified men in civilian clothes, opened fire on demonstrators who were near the entrance of armed only with sticks and stones. They also threw Molotov cocktails. It was not immediately clear on why the skirmish occurred, reported the Qatari news network Al Jazer.
"They had no beard. It was just a bunch of bad guys carrying guns," said Maged Guirguis, a demonstrator pro-Coptic. Other reports put at a hundred the number of people wounded after unknown assailants attacked a group of Copts protesting against sectarian violence at the gates of the headquarters of the public broadcaster, the problems between Egypt's Muslim majority and Coptic Christian minority has increased in recent months with a series of violent clashes between the two groups.
National television has posted images of Sunday's clashes between Coptic Christians and Muslims, which left ten dead and 186 wounded. The clashes began after five hundred Salafi Muslims are concentrated around the Coptic Christian church of Santa Maria and Santa Mina, in the district of Imbaba, the capital.
The purpose of the Salafist was taken to a woman who allegedly had converted to Islam and that they claimed had been held in this church against his will. 
However, dozens of unidentified men in civilian clothes, opened fire on demonstrators who were near the entrance of armed only with sticks and stones. They also threw Molotov cocktails. It was not immediately clear on why the skirmish occurred, reported the Qatari news network Al Jazer.
"They had no beard. It was just a bunch of bad guys carrying guns," said Maged Guirguis, a demonstrator pro-Coptic. Other reports put at a hundred the number of people wounded after unknown assailants attacked a group of Copts protesting against sectarian violence at the gates of the headquarters of the public broadcaster, the problems between Egypt's Muslim majority and Coptic Christian minority has increased in recent months with a series of violent clashes between the two groups.
National television has posted images of Sunday's clashes between Coptic Christians and Muslims, which left ten dead and 186 wounded. The clashes began after five hundred Salafi Muslims are concentrated around the Coptic Christian church of Santa Maria and Santa Mina, in the district of Imbaba, the capital.
The purpose of the Salafist was taken to a woman who allegedly had converted to Islam and that they claimed had been held in this church against his will.
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