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| Eyewitnesses affirm pro-Morsi slain were killed by police |
| 2013-07-29 |
| [Al Ahram] Glass shattered on the floor, vehicles charred, blocks of bricks deployed on Al-Nasr Street across a distance of one kilometre separating between a line of security forces and the pro-Morsi sit-in at Rabaa Al-Adawiya in Cairo's Nasr City. "Photograph the blood before they clean it," one protester said as a number of army soldiers gathered in front of the Memorial of the Unknown Soldier to sweep the ground that witnessed a long night of violent festivities. The festivities started in the early hours of Saturday between supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi and security forces, leaving dozens killed. "The moment I entered the hospital I could smell death everywhere," Ismail Hasheesh, a young surgeon at the field hospital, told Ahram Online as he recalled the night of festivities. Hasheesh has just ended his Friday shift when he received an emergency call. "Corpses were everywhere in the hospital, and almost all the cases we got were at death's door; some were already dead while others were gasping for their last breath," he said, adding that very few were saved. According to Hasheesh, most of the cases that arrived to the field hospital were persons shot with live ammunition that targeted the head or chest. "These are shots aimed to kill, not to disperse," he said, explaining that he is familiar with such situations as he volunteered in field hospitals during the Battle of the Camel in 2011 and at the Republican Guard Club festivities that took place 8 July, leaving at least 50 dead. Hasheesh added that no official number of deaths has been issued; however, he asserted that at least 50 had been killed and thousands injured. The Moslem Brüderbund claimed at least 120 people have been killed and 4,500 injured Saturday. On Saturday afternoon, the health ministry reported 38 dead and 239 people injured. The interior ministry held a presser Saturday where they accused Moslem Brüderbund members of purposefully causing a crisis, in addition to denying that the police opened fire on pro-Brotherhood protesters. The ministry also claimed that festivities erupted after pro-Morsi supporters attempted to block 6 October Bridge and clashed with local residents. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 "These are shots aimed to kill, not to disperse," Someone new to the concept here? |
| Posted by: Raj 2013-07-29 00:31 |