Sectarian violence flares in Egypt
A man raises his fist in the air during the funeral for four Coptic Christians who were shot dead during clashes with Muslims in El Khusus, a town just north of Cairo.
After the funeral service in the Egyptian capital's main cathedral, violence broke out there between Christians and Muslims. Two died of injuries sustained in the Cairo fighting, and, separately, state news agency MENA said another person was killed in fresh clashes in El Khusus.
Residents in El Khusus, just north of Cairo, said violence broke out there on April 5 when a group of Christian children were drawing on a wall of a Muslim religious institute. A Reuters reporter saw what looked like a graffitied swastika and Muslim residents said it had offended them because it looked like a cross.
People sit by a burnt car after the sectarian clashes in El Khusus.
In a show of non-sectarian solidarity, a Muslim (left) who attended the funeral of victims of the El Khusus fighting shakes hands with a Coptic Christian inside the main cathedral in Cairo.
Coptic Orthodox Christians attending the funeral mourn for their relatives.
Christians carry the coffins of the dead Copts.
Coptic Christians remove a picture of Pope Shenouda III from the gate of the main cathedral as fighting flares.
A Copt with a Christian tattoo is seen during clashes with Muslims standing outside the cathedral.
A man uses a bucket to put out a tear gas canister as Coptic Christians run inside the main cathedral in Cairo. Police fired the gas during clashes.
Coptic Christians hide behind columns as fighting flares.
Christians scuffle with a police officer (2nd right) outside the cathedral, after claiming that police forces were not protecting Egyptian minorities.
A Coptic Christian tries to get help inside the main cathedral in Cairo after he was injured in the unrest.
Coptic Christians help a man who was wounded by a bullet from a cartridge gun during fighting with Muslims.
Coptic Christians help an injured man at the cathedral.
Two spent tear gas canisters lie outside the Cairo cathedral. Christian-Muslim confrontations have increased in Muslim-majority Egypt since the overthrow of president Hosni Mubarak in 2011 gave freer rein to hard line Islamists repressed under his autocratic rule.
