A security source said on Tuesday that eight suspects have been arrested in connection with the killing of four Shi’ites which took place in Abu Musallem Village on Sunday, reported the state news agency. 

Efforts by Giza’s Criminal Investigation Department are ongoing to capture the remaining suspects, the source added. 

A mob of Salafis (ultraconservative Sunnis) raided a house where a gathering of Shi’ites was taking place late on Sunday and attacked it with rocks and Molotov cocktails, killing four and injuring others. 

During the attack, the perpetrators accused the victims, who included a leader of Egypt’s Shi’ite minority known as Sheikh Hassan Shehata, of blasphemy and beat them to death. 

President Mohamed Mursi condemned the incident on Monday while his office urged that the attackers be captured immediately and brought to justice.