Egyptian military and police troops were deployed Friday to Shubra, a working-class neighborhood in the north of Cairo, to prevent any acts of violence a day after a Muslim man was killed in clashes between Muslims and Christians there, eyewitnesses and security sources said.
Ahmed Sobhy, 30, was shot dead after clashes erupted between a Muslim family and Christian family when a Muslim girl was reportedly harassed in the street.
A security source said that police and military forces surrounded the Church of Saint Menas after receiving an anonymous threat that it would be burned down.
Fifteen Muslims and Christians were killed in Imbaba in May after a Muslim claimed that a Christian woman who had converted to Islam was being held captive in a church.
A group of Muslims then burned down a church in Imbaba, inflaming sectarian tensions between Muslims and Christians there.
That incident was the second assault on a church since the fall of former President Hosni Mubarak.
Translated from the Arabic Edition
