Egypt LiveBlog: Latest on the Alexandria Bomb and Protests
Sunday, January 2, 2011 at 8:00
2240 GMT: Youm7 is claiming that four security officers and 38 enlisted personnel were injured today during protests.
2215 GMT: Al Masry Al Youm has a brief account of today's protest in Alexandria:
Hundreds of Copts on Sunday staged demonstrations in Alexandria outside the St. Mark and St. Peter Church after security forces prevented them from entering the church.Eyewitnesses said demonstrators blocked the corniche for ten minutes before security forces managed to disperse them.
They broke storefronts belonging to Muslims, and the police managed to foil their attempts to clash with passersby.
Eyewitnesses added that the authorities places a tight security cordon around the church, as well as concrete barricades to keep traffic from the surrounding area.
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2005 GMT: Al Masry Al Youm has a report on this afternoon's protests in Cairo, describing hundreds of Coptic demonstrators who chanted, “I will keep on praying, whatever happens.”