CAIRO: Thousands turned out for the funeral of four Copts gunned down outside a church, in the first attack on Christians in Cairo since the ouster of Egypt’s Islamist president.

Priests carrying large wooden crosses made their way into the packed Church of the Virgin in Cairo’s working class neighborhood of Al-Warrak, a day after gunmen opened fire on a wedding party there.

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