Two more dead in Cairo clashes
2013-01-31 10:35
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Cairo - Two more people died in clashes between police and
protesters near Cairo's Tahrir Square earlier this week, the health ministry
said on Thursday, bringing to 56 the number of deaths nationwide in a week of
violence.
The two - a 26-year-old male and another unidentified man -
were shot in the head and chest during clashes late on Tuesday night and
succumbed to their wounds overnight, health ministry spokesperson Ahmed Omar
said.
Egypt has been gripped by unrest since rallies last week
marking the second anniversary of the uprising that toppled president Hosni
Mubarak.
The protests took a violent turn on Saturday after a court
sentenced 21 residents of the canal city of Port Said to death for their
involvement in football-related violence last year.
Anger on the street has been directed mainly at Islamist
President Mohammed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood movement who have been
accused of monopolising power and failing to reform post-revolt Egypt.
