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At least 90 killed in Egypt on Friday: Witnesses
2013-08-17
[Al Ahram] At least 90 people have been killed in Egypt during festivities between protesters and security forces, according to medical sources and eyewitnesses.

At least 54 people were killed in Cairo's Ramses Square, a doctor at a nearby field hospital told an Ahram Online correspondent. The square in downtown Cairo was the intended destination for a number of protest marches called for by supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi, after violent dispersals of pro-Morsi sit-ins in Cairo on Wednesday.

Protest marches in several cities across Egypt also turned violent. Local medical sources and eyewitnesses told Ahram Online eight protesters were killed in festivities in the Mediterranean town of Damietta, ten in Fayoum south of Cairo, 11 in the Suez Canal city of Ismailiya, and five in Al-Arish in north Sinai. In addition, eyewitnesses confirmed to Ahram Online three deaths in Alexandria and four in Mansoura in the Nile Delta.

A police conscript was also killed in a drive-by shooting on a security checkpoint north of Cairo, state news agency MENA reported. Citing a security source, Rooters said 24 coppers had been killed and 15 cop shoppes attacked since late Thursday

There were nationwide protests in Egypt on Friday called for by the Moslem Brüderbund and its allies after a bloody crackdown on Morsi supporters on Wednesday left over 600 dead.

Official health ministry sources put the figure at 27 nationwide on Friday evening.

Western nations, including the US, Germany and La Belle France, have urged restraint and condemned the violence, but Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
's King Abdullah said his country stood with Egypt in its battle against "terrorism."
Posted by:Fred

#1  Need an additional 5 orders of magnitude to really make a difference.
Posted by: Glenmore   2013-08-17 22:37  

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