CAIRO-" Hospitals receiving people injured at Imbaba church clashes that took place on Saturday are totally secured by military and civil police, Egypt's Minister of Health Ashraf Hatem said on Sunday.
Hospitals have not been lately spared thuggery owing to so far inadequate control exersiced by the police on the Egyptian streets.
Clashes erupted between Muslims and Christians in the Egyptian capital Cairo late on Saturday, leaving ten dead and more than 100 injured and a church was set on fire, medical and security officials said.
The two groups clashed after Muslims attacked the Coptic Saint Mena church in the working class neighbourhood of Imbaba to free a Christian woman they alleged was being held against her will because she wanted to convert to Islam, according to local media.
"Medical teams are doing their best to offer first aid to those injured people," Hatem was quoted by the official Middle East News Agency (MENA) as saying, adding that the ministry is closely monitoring the medical state of the injured.
