Egyptian security sources said that six Christians were killed early Thursday 1/7/2010 and nine others injured in an attack near the town of Nag Hammadi Diocese in Qena in southern Egypt.
A source said that gunmen up to three fired a barrage of bullets on groups of Christians in the city center near the eve of the archdiocese the Christmas holiday.
And celebrating the Coptic Orthodox, who make up the majority of Christians in Egypt shortly after Christmas in January (January).
The source added security that hundreds of Christians flocked to the city center to do their shopping for Eid after attending Mass at the Archbishop pointed out that three of the injured were in serious condition and taken for treatment at a hospital in the neighboring province of Sohag.
Witnesses said that the archdiocese, a Muslim guard was also killed in the shooting and added that the shooting was random. The security sources said that large numbers of riot police deployed in the city.
He saw that "the police imposed a curfew," while the security sources said police are hunting the attackers.
In November (November), hundreds of Muslims set fire to shops Christians in the neighboring city of فرشوط, having failed to rout a Christian young man while the police to take him to court for consideration of renewal of detention, and wounded at least seven Christians and one Muslim were slightly wounded by an exchange of two sets of two stones in the the city the same day.
But none of the sources did not immediately link between the events of November (November) in فرشوط Nag Hammadi and the attack today, and good relations between Muslims and the Christian minority in Egypt, but bloody conflicts sometimes arise because of the construction and repair of churches and change of religion and relations between men and women.
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