Egypt Shiites killed by mob near Cairo: police
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A crowd gathers around a bloodied man in the village of Abu Mussalam after he and others were attacked by a mob on June 23, 2013. Four Egyptian Shiite Muslims were killed, police said. (AFP)
Four Egyptian Shiite Muslims were killed on Sunday when they were attacked by a hostile mob in a village in Giza province near the capital, police said.
A house where the minority Shiites were meeting in Abu Mussalam was surrounded by residents who told them to get out.
When they refused, a crowd of several hundred people stormed the building and killed four Shiites and wounded several others, police said.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Shiites, who form just one percent of Egypt's population which is primarily Sunni Muslim, are often accused of being under the influence of Shiite-majority Iran.
Recent arrivals in Egypt of small groups of tourists from Iran had to be suspended following protests by hardline Salafists in the Arab world's most populous nation.