Anger after 25 killed in Cairo clashes

WOMEN in Cairo’s Coptic hospital wailed for their dead and Christians accused Egypt’s generals of failing to protect them from strict Islamists after 25 people, most of them Coptic demonstrators, were killed in clashes with troops.

“My brother, my brother, they killed my brother,” screamed one woman in black next to the hospital morgue where many of the dead from Sunday night’s clashes were brought. She leant on her weeping mother, surrounded by other women in the corridor.

Military police raced armoured vehicles into a crowd of Christians who were protesting over an attack on the church in southern Egypt and demanding that Aswan governor, Mostafa al-Sayed, be dismissed for failing to protect it.