December 28, 2013
CAIRO
— Anti-government protesters, including supporters of ousted Islamist
President Mohamed Morsi, allegedly set fire to at least one building at
Egypt's venerable Azhar University Saturday.According to reports by Reuters news agency and state media, one student was killed when Muslim Brotherhood supporters clashed with Egyptian police at the school's Cairo campus.
Workers used fire extinguishers to douse a blaze inside an office at the Azhar University School of Commerce Saturday. The facade of the structure and at least half a dozen offices were gutted by fires that appeared to have been deliberately set.
Police arrested at least 60 alleged Islamists after the fire.
The dean of the school of commerce tries to assure students that exams will go ahead as scheduled.
Witnesses, however, say the fires forced their cancellation at the school of commerce, although exams in other departments have continued.
Some students loyal to former President Mohamed Morsi have called for a boycott of exams this month at Azhar University and have frequently protested on the campus.
Saturday, police fired tear gas at protesters on the campus. An interior ministry spokesman told state TV that police were trying to prevent anyone from disrupting exams.
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Crisis in Egypt: One dead, dozens arrested after Islamist students torch Cairo university building
Updated
A student was killed and 60 arrested as Egyptian
police entered a Cairo university to confront Islamist protesters who
torched a building, amid an intensifying crackdown on the Muslim
Brotherhood, officials said.
The unrest followed nationwide repression of Islamist protests on Friday after the military-installed government listed the Brotherhood, the movement of deposed president Mohamed Morsi, as a terrorist organisation.A hospital official said a 19-year-old student was shot dead in the clashes at the Al-Azhar University campus, where pro-Morsi students have regularly staged protests since his overthrow by the army in July.
The students had entered the commerce faculty during an exam and set it alight, before police burst into the campus and fired tear gas.
A police official said 60 of the students were arrested after the fire on the first two floors of the building was brought under control.
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