Minya, 29 Nov. (AKI) - Three people were killed and several injured in clashes between minority Coptic Christians and Muslims in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Minya, daily Al-Ahram reported Friday.
The clashes broke out late on Thursday when a local Muslim got into a fight with a Copt over the construction of a wall in village outside Minya, the paper cited the city's Coptic Orthodox Archbishopric as stating.
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