Three people have died and three others have been wounded in a gunfight between two families – one Muslim and the other Christian – in the southern city of Sohag.
Eyewitnesses said the fighting started on Monday, when a Christian hit a Muslim with an iron rod on the head and killed him, in retaliation for building a disputed fence near his home. The Muslim’s relatives, in turn, killed two members of the Copt’s family and wounded another three in retribution. They also burned the family’s houses and shops.
Sohag has been a focus point of sectarian fighting in the past.
Translated from the Arabic Edition
