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Egypt Deploys 1,000 Police After Christians Killed


(Reuters) Two Christian men were axed to death in Salamoun, 350 km south of Cairo, after a donkey being ridden by a Muslim slipped on the wet roadway outside their house. The Nile valley town of 40,000 is close to 40% Coptic Christian but was also a stronghold of militant Islamists who fought the government in the 1990s. Egyptian authorities deployed some 1,000 police around the town on Saturday.
2004-03-08 00:00:00
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