Pro-Mursi supporters take out rallies with thousand of Islamist’s backers across the country . The protests came after an Islamist alliance backing Mursi called for demonstrations ahead of a new hearing in Mursi’s trial on Wednesday.
The trail on Mursi is being tried on charges of inciting the killings of protesters during his presidency.
He will also stand trial on January 28 over a jailbreak during the 2011 popular uprising that toppled long-time ruler Hosni Mubarak
The protesters are clashed with anti-Mursi opponents in different cites.
Police intervened to disperse the protests with tear gas and fire birdshot.
Three killed in different incidents.
One man was killed by birdshot to his chest in the Suez canal city of Ismailiya during clashes after weekly Muslim prayers, medics said, adding that eight others, including a police officer, were wounded.
Clashes in the city of Fayoum, southwest of Cairo, security officials said. Another man was killed and three were wounded and in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, a third person was killed, according to the sources.
At least 122 people have also been arrested around the country, they said.
Police also fought street battles with rock-throwing protesters in several districts of the capital.
Protesters in Cairo torched a police vehicle using petrol bombs, a security official said. State media said residents extinguished the fire. In the upscale Maadi neighborhood, police fired tear gas near a military hospital as protesters threw fireworks at them, an official said.
He said protesters clashed with the police on a road along the Nile River and also inside the suburb.
The street was littered with rocks and burning wood as police vehicles sped up and down the road to disperse the protesters.
The demonstrators regrouped in a side street, facing off with riot police and chanting “They are the thugs! “
Gunshots were also heard. Protesters chanted “Down with military rule” and slogans against army chief Abdel Fattah Al-Sissi, who led Mursi’s ouster in July.
Cairo’s main squares were sealed off by security forces using barbed wire and military vehicles.
They included Tahrir Square, as well as Rabaa Al-Adawiya and Nahda squares, which were the sites of a bloody crackdown on Mursi’s supporters in August.
State news agency MENA reported a number were wounded by birdshot in clashes in Alexandria and that Mursi supporters torched two civilian cars. More than 1,000 people, mostly Islamists, died in street clashes following his overthrow, and thousands have been imprisoned.