27-07-2013 | 11:54  At least 140 people have been killed and 5,200 others injured in clashes during rival demonstrations by supporters and opponents of ousted President Mohammad Mursi across the country. The clashes broke out after Mursi's supporters gathered in Cairo's Nasr City district on Friday demanding his reinstatement. Meanwhile, the Egyptian army reportedly used live ammunition on pro-Mursi demonstrators during the mass rallies.  "They are not shooting to wound, they are shooting to kill," the Muslim Brotherhood spokesman Gehad al-Haddad said, adding that the protesters had been hit by gunshot in the head and chest. Anti-Mursi protesters also assembled in Cairo's iconic Liberation Square and around the presidential palace. Protesters held Egypt's flag and pictures of al-Sisi, burnt flags of the United States, Turkey, Qatar, and "Israel", and demanded to prosecute the Muslim Brotherhood leaderships and severing ties with terrorist-harboring countries and Hamas movement. Moreover, the Egyptian interim Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim threatened that sit-in protests in the capital by the supporters of Mursi will be "brought to an end soon and in a legal manner."  Al-Sisi said in a speech that the rally will give the army a mandate to fight "violence and terrorism" on Egypt since Mursi's ouster on July 3. Also, Egyptian state media reported on Friday that Mursi is sentenced to detention for 15 days so prosecutors may investigate allegations that he conspired with the Palestinian movement Hamas to carry out attacks and prison breaks during the 2011 revolution that toppled former President Hosni Mubarak. For its part, Hamas in Gaza considered the former Egyptian President's detention on grounds of conspiring with Hamas as a "political decision rather than a judicial one." The spokesman for the movement Salah al-Bardawil said on this note, "The decision is an attempt to please America and "Israel" through detaining someone in the name of Hamas in an irrelevant issue." Source: News Agencies, edited by website team |
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140 People Killed Thousands Injured in Egypt Clashes, Mursi Detained for 15 Days
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