Yasser Ahmed Qassem was taken into custody on suspicion of stabbing to death the father of a Christian man believed to have been having an affair with Qassem's sister.

DPA said Qassem is believed to have stabbed the man after a fight in which the clothes of the elder man's son were set on fire.

DPA reported the murder case comes after a week of tension in the mixed village of Domas between the two communities over rumors of the Christian-Muslim affair.

Christians make up about 10 per cent of Egypt's approximately 80 million people, with the rest being mainly Sunni Muslims. Tensions periodically flare over perceived offences to each other's religion or land disputes.

By Jeremy Reynalds
Correspondent for ASSIST News Service

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Source: Assist News