Egyptian government have detained several of people in the capital, Cairo, after fighting between Coptic Christians and police killed 24 people and injured at least 200 others.
Coptic Christians had been demonstrating the newly set on fire of a church when the demonstrations gone up into the unrest against army rule.
Coptic Christians had been demonstrating the newly set on fire of a church when the demonstrations gone up into the unrest against army rule.
Egypt's interim Cabinet says it will not permit to any group to destabilize national harmony or delay its democratic evolution. According to State media the Cabinet is sharing an emergency meeting to talk about the condition, and the army enforced a nighttime curfew on Tahrir Square and the adjacent areas.
The demonstrators utilized firebombs, set military vehicles on fire and fought with security forces in Egypt's most cruel clashes since the February revolt that step down to Hosni Mubarak as Egypt's president.
Several f rebels battled with police, some of them tearing up asphalt road and utilizing rocks for shells. At one stage, unbreakable security vehicle rapidity into the crowd, humiliating some demonstrators to death. Two soldiers also killed in Sunday's fighting.
Military soldiers fled after Egyptian Coptic protestors in Cairo, Egypt Sunday, Oct. 9, 2011.
Christian protestors said a peaceful procession in the mostly Coptic neighborhood of Shubra turned lethal when the group marched to Egypt's Radio and Television Building where plain clothes police assaulted them. The protests afterward scattered into Tahrir Square, the key point of the February revolution.
In the previous few weeks, uprisings have broken out at two churches in southern Egypt, provoked by Muslim crowds irritated about church construction.
One clash occurred near the city of Aswan after church authorities consented to a demand by local ultra-conservative Muslims - recognized as Salafis - that a cross and bells be got red of from the church building.
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Aswan's governor, Mustafa Kamel al-Sayyed, is also reported to have advised that the church does not have legal approval. Demonstrators said Sunday they are insisting the governor's dismissal after the church was burned and somewhat bulldozed last week.
Christians make up about one-tenth of Egypt's 80 million natives and often face assaults from Islamic rebels. Copts joined with Muslims during the protests that ejected Mr. Mubarak, but sectarian difficulties have since exaggerated.
Egypt have been knowing new regulations set to shoot sectarian violence, including banning protests at places of adoration and the use of religious slogans to incite hatred.
In May, 12 people were died in sectarian fighting between Christians and Muslims after reports spread that Christians were holding a woman who had transformed to Islam.
