Egypt’s presidency condemns killing of Shiites

people,” the presidency said in a statement.

The four Shiites were killed Sunday in a conflict with Sunnis in a village in Giza governorate, southwest of the capital Cairo.
Dozens of Sunnis from Abu Musallam village burned a house in which 15 Shiites stayed, after one of the Shiites delivered a religious speech deemed by Sunnis as offensive and insulting to the companions and the wife of Prophet Mohammed.

The Sunni Muslims hurled stones and Molotov cocktails at the house.
Four of the Shiites were caught by the Sunnis and beaten to death. — Xinhua.

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