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| Armed supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohammad Mursi seized two soldiers in Cairo who were identified as Samir Abdallah Ali and Azzam Hazem Ali. The two soldiers were able to escape after the abductees forced them to make pro-Mursi and anti-army statements on a loudspeaker, MENA news agency reported, adding that “one soldier had been "severely beaten up" and filmed while making the pro-Mursi statements. The capture came after 42 of Muslim Brotherhood supporters were killed on Monday when the Armed forces opened fire at a protest in front of the Republican Guards Headquarters in Cairo. However, AFP quoted witnesses, including Brotherhood supporters at the scene, as saying that the army fired only tear gas and warning shots and that "thugs" in civilian clothes had carried out the deadly shooting.  On another hand, the Egyptian Army said that “armed terrorists” tried to storm elite Republican Guard Headquarters, leaving one security officer dead, an Army statement quoted by Al-Ahram website reported.“At dawn, an armed terrorist group tried to storm the Republican Guard (building)..., attacking army troops and police, which led to the death of one officer and left several conscripts injured, including six in critical condition," the statement said. The Muslim brotherhood called on the international community to intervene to prevent the ouster Mursi after the death of 35 of its supporters, while its political arm, the Freedom and Justice Party, called for “an uprising by the great people of Egypt against those trying to steal their revolution with tanks”. The Freedom and Justice Party urged "the international community and international groups and all the free people of the world to intervene to stop further massacres …” | ||||
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| Egypt’s Interior Ministry said security forces arrested one of the extremists who threw an Egyptian teenager off a ledge on top of a roof and beat him to death. In a statement, the ministry said that security forces in Alexandria ide  ntified one of the men as Mahmoud Hasan Ramadan, and arrested him as he was hiding in a residential area in Baltim region.The statement added that security forces were exerting efforts in a bid to arrest the other extremists who committed the crime. Earlier on Saturday, a video posted on social media websites showed an extremist mob threw an Egyptian teenager off a ledge on top of a roof and beat him to death. The young man who was killed, identified as Hamada Badr, 19, and his three friends were caught on camera hiding from a large group who had chased them onto a terrace in Alexandria. The video, apparently filmed with a mobile phone camera from across the road, show the four teenagers escaping onto a 20ft ledge during violent protests on Friday. As the teenagers huddle on top of the 20ft ledge, the mob begin throwing rocks at them and attempt to climb after them. One bearded thug is seen carrying a black and white Al Qaeda flag.  Shortly after, three of the boys are thrown off the fifth-floor ledge and beaten as they lie on the ground. Badr, died while his two friends were left seriously injured. His father, Mohammed Badr, said: ‘Do you know the teenager that they killed and disfigured his body and threw from the fifth floor is only 19 and four days? ‘All he was guilty of was that he was on the roof of the building, celebrating the ousting of (overthrown president Mohammad) Mursi,” the teenager’s father added. | ||||
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