Mon Jul 8, 2013 5:57AM GMT
LAST UPDATE
On
July 3, General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the head of Egypt’s army,
announced that President Mohamed Morsi was no longer in office.
At
least 34 supporters of Egypt’s ousted President Mohamed Morsi have been
killed by the security forces during protests in the capital, Cairo,
medical sources say.
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has also confirmed that its supporters were killed on Monday when the army attacked a sit-in outside the Republican Guard barracks.
Muslim Brotherhood said that snipers targeted protesters attending the sit-in.
Dozens of people were wounded and taken to nearby hospitals.
Meanwhile, Egypt’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) estimates that more than 50 people were killed in violence.
Witnesses say Egyptian troops used live ammunition to disperse the protesters in Nasr City District, eastern Cairo.
The Strong Egypt Party has condemned the killings, saying General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the head of Egypt’s army, is responsible for the deadly incident.
The Egyptian military also said that one officer was killed and 40 wounded after the military compound was attacked by a “terrorist group.”
According to Egypt’s television, protesters are continuing with the sit-in outside the Republican Guard building despite the attack.
Supporters and opponents of Mohamed Morsi remain on the streets as tensions continue to rise across the country.
On Sunday, Morsi’s supporters held demonstrations on Rabia al-Adawiya Square and Al-Nahda Square close to Cairo University, demanding his return to power.
They also erected barricades and set up checkpoints across Cairo, blocking the main road leading to Cairo International Airport.
Anti-Morsi demonstrators gathered in Cairo’s iconic Liberation Square and around the presidential palace.
Opponents of the ousted president also took to the streets in Alexandria on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea and in other major cities across the country.
On July 3, General Sisi announced that President Morsi was no longer in office.
The chief justice of Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court, Adli Mansour, was sworn in as interim president of Egypt on July 4.
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Army kills Morsi supporters in deadly Cairo clashes
At least 15 Muslim Brotherhood supporters were killed early Monday in Cairo when soldiers opened fire at a demonstration in support of ousted president Mohammed Morsi. The protesters were staging a sit-in at the camp where Morsi is imprisoned.
By News Wires (text)
At least 15 people were killed on Monday in Cairo, medical sources said, when the Muslim Brotherhood said shots were fired at supporters of deposed President Mohamed Mursi near the military building where he is being held.
The Egyptian military said “a terrorist group” had tried to storm the building. One army officer had been killed and 40 wounded, the military said.
Murad Ali of the Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party said 34 Mursi supporters had been killed. He said shooting broke out in the early morning while Islamists staged a sit-in outside the Republican Guard barracks.
Al Jazeera’s Egypt news channel broadcast footage of what appeared to be five men killed in the violence, and medics applying cardiopulmonary resuscitation to an unconscious man at a makeshift clinic at a nearby pro-Mursi sit-in.
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Egyptian PM deadlock drags on as hundreds of thousands protest
07/08/2013 04:09
Anti-Morsi protesters celebrate in Alexandria, June 7, 2013. Photo: REUTERS/Louafi Larbi
CAIRO - Deadlock over Egypt's interim prime minister entered a third day on Monday after the Islamist Nour Party rejected candidates for interim prime minister, prolonging the impasse amid huge protests that turned violent and killed more than 35.
Egypt's military, which overthrew elected leader President Mohamed Morsi on Wednesday, can ill afford a lengthy political vacuum at a time of violent upheaval and economic stagnation in the Arab world's largest nation of 84 million people.
Scenes of running street battles between pro- and anti-Morsi demonstrators in Cairo, Alexandria and cities across the country have alarmed Egypt's allies, including key aid donors the United States and Europe, and Israel, with which Egypt has had a US-backed peace treaty since 1979.
At least 35 people died in violence on Friday and Saturday in fresh turmoil that came two and a half years after autocratic ruler Hosni Mubarak was toppled in a 2011 uprising.
While Sunday was calmer, the sight of huge crowds numbering hundreds of thousands gathering in different parts of Cairo was a reminder of the risks of further instability.
The transitional administration, installed by the army to steer Egypt to fresh elections, put forward two possible liberal-minded choices for the key position of interim prime minister over the weekend.
On both occasions the Nour Party said no.
Nour had signed up to the army's roadmap for the political transition, giving Islamist legitimacy to an audacious overthrow rejected by Islamic parties aligned to Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood.
That has given it leverage over the choice of the next prime minister. But already accused by other Islamists of betraying their cause, Nour must tread carefully to avoid losing support among its core constituency.
Unlike Nour, its bigger rival the Brotherhood has said it would have no part in the military-backed political process.
Thousands of its supporters are camped out in a suburb of northeastern Cairo. They are refusing to budge until their leader is restored - an unlikely outcome.
Others, like 55-year-old Hanim Ahmad Ali Al-Sawi, were waiting outside the Republican Guard barracks where Morsi was being held.
"We will not leave until Morsi returns. Otherwise we'll die as martyrs," she said, as soldiers and policemen looked on from behind barbed wire. She had been there with her five children for the last three days in spite of the scorching heat.
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