At least 18 people, including three policeman, have died at protests around the country on the fourth anniversary of the 2011 revolution, the health ministry announced Sunday.
Ten people, including a police conscript, were killed in Cairo’s Matariya district in the north of the capital, where the day’s most intense and sustained clashes took place.
Matariya is a hotbed for clashes between pro-Mohamed Morsi protesters and police, with weekly confrontations typical and deaths regularly reported.
By early evening, clashes in Cairo had subsided, with the exception of Matariya.
Another person was killed elsewhere in Cairo and two more in Giza, where the municipality headquarters of the Haram district were torched. Another two police conscripts were killed by unknown assailants in Giza who fled in a car on the ring road through the Moneib district, Egypt’s state news agency MENA reported.
One person was also killed in the coastal city of Alexandria, health ministry officials said.
A further two people died when a bomb they were planting detonated in the Nile Delta’s Beheira governorate, health ministry official Khaled El-Khateeb told Reuters’ Aswat Masriya.
The ministry also said that at least 38 people were injured in clashes in Cairo, Giza, the Nile Delta’s Kafr El-Sheikh and Upper Egypt’s Minya governorate; the interior ministry said 11 policemen were injured.
The interior ministry said in a statement that close to 150 “rioters” were apprehended on Sunday across the country… see more
source: ahram online
Tags: Egypt Protest, Politics
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