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January 17, 2010 - 5:54AM AFP Three Muslims accused of gunning down six Egyptian Christians on the Coptic Christmas Eve will stand trial before an emergency security court, the state prosecutor said on Saturday.
The prosecutor, Abdel Magid Mahmud, said in a statement that the three men were charged with premeditated murder aimed at harming national interests. The suspects were arrested a day after they allegedly gunned down six Copts and a Muslim policeman along a stretch of road with churches and a shopping mall in the southern village of Naga Hammadi on January 6. The attack took place after worshippers emerged from a Midnight Mass before Christmas, marked by Copts on January 7. The killings sparked outrage among Egypt's Copts, who make up about 10 per cent of the country's 80 million people, and led to clashes with police.
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