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JUDY WOODRUFF (Newshour): Egypt struggled to return to calm today after deadly riots that involved Coptic Christians, Muslims and security forces. The weekend violence was the worst since the February uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak.
Ray Suarez has the story.
RAY SUAREZ (Newshour): Outrage and sadness filled Cairo's main Coptic Christian cathedral today. Funerals were held for some of the 26 protesters killed last night. More than 500 others were wounded.
One mourner held up a bloodied T-shirt as the Coptic pope, Shenouda III, presided at Saint Mark's Cathedral. The killings raised the specter of sectarian conflict in predominantly Muslim Egypt, where roughly one-tenth of the 80 million people are Coptic Christians.
PBS Newshour 10/10/2011
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