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Egypt Shiites Killed By Mob Near Cairo, Police Say (GRAPHIC PHOTOS)

HORROR: Mob Kills 4 Shiites Near Cairo
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The body of a bloodied Shiite Muslim man is dragged along a street in the village of Abu Mussalam after he and others were attacked by a mob when they allegedly refused to leave a house where they had gathered, on June 23, 2013. Four Egyptian Shiite Muslims were killed and several others wounded when they were attacked by a hostile mob in the village in Giza province near the capital, police said. AFP PHOTO/STR (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)
The body of a bloodied Shiite Muslim man is dragged along a street in the village of Abu Mussalam after he and others were attacked by a mob when they allegedly refused to leave a house where they had gathered, on June 23, 2013. Four Egyptian Shiite Muslims were killed and several others wounded when they were attacked by a hostile mob in the village in Giza province near the capital, police said. AFP PHOTO/STR (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)

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.

WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES BELOW

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.

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.

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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.

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