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Clashes in Egypt Between Christians, Muslims Injure 50

   Violence erupted when a mob attacked a group of Coptic Christians
   staging a sit-in outside the state TV building in central Cairo

   VOA News  May 15, 2011
   Protesting Coptic Christians block the streets near state TV building,
   Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, May, 15, 2011

Photo: AP

   Protesting Coptic Christians block the streets near state TV building,
   Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, May, 15, 2011

   Egyptian security officials say clashes between Muslim and Christian
   protesters have injured more than 50 people in Cairo.
   The violence erupted when a mob attacked a group of Coptic Christians
   staging a sit-in outside the state television building in central
   Cairo. The Saturday brawl continued into early Sunday.
   Witnesses say people threw rocks and set vehicles on fire. Police and
   army troops fired shots in the air to disperse the crowd.
   The latest sectarian violence comes about a week after Muslim mobs
   attacked Egypt's Coptic Christian minority, burning two churches and
   leaving 15 people dead in Cairo's slum of Imbaba.
   Christians make up about a tenth of Egypt's 80-million people. They
   joined forces with Muslims during the protests that ousted long-time
   president Hosni Mubarak earlier this year, but sectarian strife has
   since intensified.

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