Cairo- Prime Minister the Egypt called an emergency meeting of the cabinet Sunday after 10 people have died in bloody clashes in a suburb of Cairo on the conversion of a Christian woman in Islam.
Sectarian conflict Saturday was worse for the Egypt, since the death of 13 people in violence, March 9 triggered by a church burning and throws down a new challenge for the generals ruling the country since the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak.
There was a brief burst of gunfire Sunday in the district where the violence took place.
Approximately 500 Islamic conservatives known as Salafi massed outside the Church of Mina Saint in the suburbs of Cairo of Imbaba on Saturday demanding there give a woman, whom they said had converted to Islam and stood against him that Christians will be.
Salafis have been joined by other Muslims who seek access to the Church to see if it was inside. Tensions flare, shooting broke out and both sides threw stones and incendiary bombs.
Soldiers and police fired shots in the air and used tear gas to separate the two parties, but the stone-throwing skirmishes have overnight in the streets near the Church.
A power cut plunged the neighbourhood in the dark, making it more difficult for security forces quell the violence.
Another Church in the vicinity, St. Mary s, set on fire and severely damaged during the clashes on the day the day.
"My son is attending that Church." How can never feel safe? ", said Nashaat Boshra, who stood crying Saint Mary Sunday. It is the religious struggles, facilitated by the army and the police. Let's just face the truth. ?
INTERFAITH TENSIONS
Sunday morning, the army had stationed tanks in the streets around the Church and verified people walking in the area. Residents put warning passers-by to avoid the neighbourhood which was generally calm Sunday outside the brief burst of gunfire.
"I think that the army is in a State of confusion," said Gamal Eid, a prominent writer and human rights activist. "It is afraid to take serious measures against extremists to not be accused of suppression of these movements."
On Sunday, armed with the Egypt said that 190 people would be tried by military tribunals on violence between Christians and Muslims Saturday.
"The Supreme Military Council decided to send all those who have been arrested in the events of yesterday, which is 190 people, to the Supreme Court of military...," the army said on her Facebook page.
Sectarian strife of flares often Egypt over conversions, family conflicts and the construction of churches. Muslims and Christians made demonstrations of unity during the demonstrations that toppled Mubarak, but the interfaith tensions reached.
Prime Minister Essam Sharaf cancelled a visit to the Gulf States to call an emergency cabinet meeting Sunday morning to decide how to respond to violence.
More high religious authority by the Egypt, Al-Azhar, was also hold an emergency meeting to discuss the clashes. The Governor of Giza province, where the Church is located, said close to the dead and wounded would be entitled to compensation.
Some Christians said security forces had been too slow to disperse the crowd across from the Church and looked on the tension is to at the outset. Christians represent about 10% of the population of the Egypt $ 80 million.
"God knows if the history of this young girl convert is true or rumours but, still, it does not add to Islam or reduce Christianity," said Dina Mohamed, a homemaker living near Saint Mary. "Why we focus on such matters when we're in a country that can barely stand on his feet."
Police who deserted streets protests that led to the fall of Mubarak February 11 is returned to their jobs, but many Egyptians say that they feel less safe in the streets.
State media has given the new number of deaths and revised the number of injured to 186, with two in critical condition in hospital. At least five were found dead Saturday and 75 wounded.
One of the new bodies found inside the Church, official news agency MENA reported. Wounded Muslims and Christians treated at the hospital showed reporters of small holes that resemble shotgun wounds.
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