Dozens Killed in Egypt Clashes...Crisis Continues

Local Editor

At least 15 people were killed on Monday in Cairo, medical sources said, when the Muslim Brotherhood said shots were fired at supporters of deposed President Mohamed Mursi near the military building where he is being held.

The Egyptian military said "a terrorist group" had tried to storm the building. One army officer had been killed and 40 wounded, the military said.

Murad Ali of the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party said 34 Mursi supporters had been killed. He said shooting broke out in the early morning while Islamists staged a sit-in outside the Republican Guard barracks.
According to the protesters, Egyptian troops and police early Monday used guns and teargas to disperse supporters Mursi outside the Republican Guard headquarters in Cairo.
"I saw with my own eyes the people who they shot at" one protester said, adding that several people had been injured.

A fellow protester said the security forces fired bullets into the air and threw several teargas grenades.

"They wanted to disperse the protesters" who were determined to stage an indefinite sit-in, according to the protester.
On Friday at the same spot, four pro-Mursi supporters were shot dead by soldiers.
Tens of thousands of demonstrators are on the streets of Egyptian cities in rival shows of force by supporters and opponents of Mohammed Mursi, ousted as president by the military last week.
Mursi's supporters gathered outside a mosque and a barracks in Cairo to demand his reinstatement.

Meanwhile, the man's anti- protesters rally in the capital's Tahrir Square.
Mursi, is in detention, along with some senior Muslim Brotherhood figures.
He was replaced on Thursday by Adly Mansour - the head of the Supreme Constitutional Court - who promised to hold elections soon but gave no date.
The military has deployed troops in Cairo and other locations. More than 30 people were killed and about 1,000 people injured across Egypt in protests on Friday.

Mursi' supporters have been camped outside the Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque in Cairo for more than a week. On Sunday, thousands marched from the mosque to the barracks of the Presidential Guard, where they believe Mursi is being held.
Another group of pro-Mursi marchers have headed for the ministry of defense.
Tamarod, the opposition movement whose name means "rebel" in Arabic, called on its supporters to rally in Tahrir Square and at the Ittihadiya presidential palace.

Egypt military planes flew overhead, trailing plumes of smoke in red, white and black, the colors of the national flag.
Meanwhile, a presidential spokesman has told Egyptian TV channels that business lawyer Ziad Bahaa Eldin is "very likely" to be appointed as interim prime minister.

On Friday, Egypt's state news agency said pro-reform leader Mohamed al-Baradei would be named as interim premier.

Tamarod has tweeted that it will not accept anyone except al-Baradei, a Nobel laureate and former head of the UN nuclear agency, as prime minister.
However, the ultra-conservative Salafist al-Nour party is said to be unhappy with al-Baradei.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team