Police guard churches in Egypt following Muslim rioting

Sunday, October 23, 2005

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt -- Thousands of police manned barricades around Christian churches in Egypt's second largest city Saturday, a day after Muslim rioters attacked churches and shops, leaving four people dead in the country's worst religious violence in five years.

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