The clash began on Friday when the residents of El Khusus saw a group of Christian children drawing on a wall of a Muslim religious institute. The Muslim residents were offended because the picture looked like a cross. One of the Muslim residents saw the children and started beating them. The scene drew a large crowd. It escalated when someone drew a gun and fired it in the air, killing one boy with a stray bullet.

Reuters reporter noted that an angry crowd smashed shops belonging to Christians. A Coptic day care center was burnt and several shops belonging to Christian traders were damaged. An apartment inhabited by Muslims was also burned.

Four Christian Copts and one Muslim were killed when members of both communities started fighting and shooting at each other in El Khusus north of the Egyptian capital, Cairo. MENA, the State news agency recorded a death toll of four. The president's office expressed condolences to the victims and vowed to fight any sectarian violence.

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