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Clashes erupted when dozens of residents threw firebombs and rocks at police. In anticipation of renewed clashes, police had set up checkpoints and increased their presence around the Mar Girgis church in Aswan. The clashes resumed on Friday afternoon between the police forces and protesters who accused the church of kidnapping a Muslim woman with the intention of converting her to Christianity. They also tried to storm into the church which caused the injury of three, one of them a police officer. The security forces threw teargas bombs to disperse the protesters. |
