Police personnel line up before Imbaba church

Sun, 08/05/2011 - 13:21

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Armed forces and police personnel lining up before the Virgin Mary church which was burnt, Imbaba district, Giza, 8 May, 2011. At least 10 were killed, 186 were injured during bloody sectarian clashes which took place in Imbaba. Clashes erupted over a woman who allegedly converted to Islam after getting married to a Muslim and is being held in a church in Imbaba, which made her husband contact the Salafi groups who torched the church.

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Mohamed Kamal

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Sun, 08/05/2011 (All day)

Armed forces and police personnel lining up before the Virgin Mary church which was burnt, Imbaba district, Giza, 8 May, 2011. At least 10 were killed, 186 were injured during bloody sectarian clashes which took place in Imbaba. Clashes erupted over a woman who allegedly converted to Islam after getting married to a Muslim and is being held in a church in Imbaba, which made her husband contact the Salafi groups who torched the church.