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Police arrested six persons who threw petrol bombs and stones at 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. Major General Hassan Abdul-Hay, security chief of Aswan, told reporters late Saturday that "family and social reasons," not religion, were behind her disappearance, and she had not converted. |
