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Clashes between Christian protesters and Egyptian security forces resumed Monday, with hundreds pelting the police with rocks outside a central Cairo hospital, security officials said.
At least 24 people were killed and more than 200 injured when Christians, angered by a recent church attack, clashed Sunday night with Muslims and security forces outside the state television building in central Cairo. It was some of the worst violence since the February uprising.
The officials said Monday's clashes took place outside a Cairo hospital where bodies of Christian victims were kept.
The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media, had no word on casualties.
The latest violence comes hours before funeral services for the victims were to be held at the Coptic Christian cathedral in Cairo.
Egypt's government cabinet called an emergency meeting for Monday, vowing the violence would not derail the country's first election since Hosni Mubarak was toppled.
Voting starts on November 28 with candidates due to begin registering during the week starting Wednesday.
'Dark day' Christians complained that military police had used heavy-handed tactics against them.
The clashes also added to growing frustration among activists. Many Egyptians suspect the army wants to keep hold of the reins of power from behind the scenes even as it hands over day-to-day government. The army denies this.

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A man grieves near the bodies of protesters killed during clashes with Egyptian security forces in Cairo Egypt, Sunday, Oct. 9.

"This is a dark day in the military's history. This is betrayal, a conspiracy, murder," Magdy el-Serafy wrote on Twitter where he and other Egyptians voiced frustration at the army's handling of the protest.
The Health Ministry said the death toll had reached 24 with 213 injured, the official MENA news agency reported.
Story: Christians in Egypt fear Islamist pressure It did not identify the dead but state television had earlier reported three soldiers were killed.

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Famous Prime Minister Essam Sharaf toured the area near the state television building where clashes erupted, MENA said, adding he spoke to those in the area to hear their accounts of events.
"What happened in front of the state TV building is exactly what happened on January 25," wrote Muslim activist Asmaa Mahfouz, referring to the start of the anti-Mubarak uprising.
Christians, who make up 10 percent of Egypt's roughly 80 million people, took to the streets after blaming Muslim radicals for partially demolishing a church in Aswan province last week.
They also demanded the sacking of the province's governor for failing to protect the building.
Not sectarian Tensions between Christians and Muslims have increased since the uprising. But Muslim and Christian activists said the violence Sunday was not due to sectarian differences but was directed at the army's handling of the protest.
"Instead of advancing to build a modern state of democratic principles, we are back searching for security and stability, worrying that there are hidden hands, both domestic and foreign, seeking to obstruct the will of Egyptians in establishing a democracy," Sharaf said on state television.
"We will not surrender to these malicious conspiracies and we will not accept reverting back," he said in his address.