Five Egyptians were killed and eight wounded in clashes between
Christians and Muslims in a town near Cairo, security sources
said on Saturday, in the latest sectarian violence in the most
populous Arab state.  Christian-Muslim confrontations have
increased in Muslim-majority Egypt since the overthrow of former
President Hosni Mubarak in 2011 gave freer rein to hardline
Islamists repressed under his rule.  Four Christians and one
Muslim were killed when members of both communities started
shooting at each other in Khusus outside the Egyptian capital,
the sources said.  State news agency MENA put the death toll at
four.  The violence broke out late on Friday when a group of
Christian children were drawing on a wall of a Muslim religious
institute, the security sources said. No more details were
immediately available.  MENA quoted a Christian official as
saying unidentified assailants had attacked a local church
during the clashes and set parts of it on fire. Police had
stepped up security at the church after M