Clashes occurred between Muslims (who are a majority) of Manbāl village and Christians (who are a majority) in Manshā'at Manbāl village due to a bag of water that was thrown by a Muslim youth at a young Coptic girl, which sparked violence injuring two Copts and smashing two pharmacies, two shops and a bakery in Manshā'at Manbāl, and threw stones at the village church. The security forces used armored formations to separate the two villages and caught the instigator of the incidents and a security cordon was put in place around the villages (Najlah Fathī and 'Alī Husayn, al-Dustūr, May 15, p. 5). Read original text in Arabic.