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Abu Musallam incident

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Abu Musallam attack
LocationAbu Musallam, Giza, Egypt
Date23 June 2013
TargetShiites
Attack type
Stabbings/beatings/lynching
Weaponssticks
rocks
Deaths5 Shias[citation needed]
Injureddozens[citation needed]
PerpetratorsSunnis (Salafists, Muslim Brotherhood)[1]

The Abu Musallam incident was an event where a large group of 3000 people, including Salafist Muslims, killed a small group of Shias in their home in a suburb of Cairo on June 23 2013. Among the dead was sheikh Hassan Shehata who was a prominent religious figure among the Egyptian Shia community. Some news sources described the mob as "takfiris", while others described it as being a result of anti-Shia rhetoric steaming from sermons at Friday prayers.[2]

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