(10 Mar 2011)
1. Families carrying coffins from cars to St Simon monastery
2. Various of coffins being carried into the monastery
3. Wide of mourners
4. Wide of families standing around the coffins
5. Mourners waiting for prayers in a stadium inside the monastery
6. Close-up of two mourners
7. Women crying and screaming
8. Mid of priest in prayers
9. Group of military soldiers and officers coming to offer condolences
10. Banner reading (Arabic): "Yes to love and stability"
11. Wide of thousands of mourners
12. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Mena Wagih, Relative of person killed in clashes:
"Those are martyrs. I wish that God blesses those martyrs and blesses us all."
13. Wide of St. Simon monastery
STORYLINE:
Funerals were held in the Egyptian capital Cairo on Thursday for victims of recent clashes between Muslims and Christians that killed 13 people.
Families carried coffins into the St Simon monastery as thousands gathered to take part in the religious ceremony.
A relative of a person killed during the clashes described the dead as martyrs.
"I wish that god blesses those martyrs and blesses us all," said Mena Wagih.
140 other people were wounded in the clashes which deepened a sense of chaos as the police and ruling military struggled to maintain order barely a month after a popular uprising ousted long-time leader Hosni Mubarak.
The violence offered a glimpse of what has gone wrong in a one-time police state that now finds itself with less than half of its security forces back to work and a military that does not have enough troops on the ground.
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