Five Muslims Sentenced for Murder

An Egyptian court has sentenced five Muslims to life in prison for killing two Christian men in a family blood-feud in Egypt.

According to a report on the News24 site, the court in the southern city of Luxor found the men guilty of shooting two Coptic Christians in the town of Higaza last April in a feud between their two families which goes back to 2004. Tensions between Muslims and Christians in southern Egypt were heightened last month after a drive-by shooting in the town of Nagaa Hammadi in which six Coptic Christians and a Muslim policeman were killed.