Flames lit up central Cairo, where massive clashes raged yesterday, drawing Christians angry over a recent church attack, hard-line Muslims and Egyptian security forces.

PROTESTERS and regime supporters skirmished in a second day of rock-throwing battles at a central Cairo square while new lawlessness spread around the city.

Another bout of heavy gunfire and clashes erupted around dusk tonight in the Cairo square at the centre of Egypt’s anti-government chaos.

Three Saudi policeman were killed yesterday when militants armed with heavy machine guns opened fire on them as they checked an illegally parked truck.