At least four people were killed and 17 others injured in clashes between police and pro-Morsi protesters who staged several rallies and blocked roads across Egypt to commemorate the first anniversary of hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood protesters’ killings, reports said on Thursday
Four people were killed while 17 got injured in the clashes yesterday, the Ministry of Health affairs said.
Three deaths took place in Cairo, while a police sergeant was killed in Helwan when unknown attackers fired at their car on the outskirts here, a security official said.
The protests erupted in response to calls by the National Alliance for the Defense of Legitimacy, Morsi’s main support bloc, to commemorate the violent dispersal one year ago.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Interior Affairs in a statement said that 114 Muslim Brotherhood supporters were arrested for the demonstrations yesterday.
Bomb squads has defused 23 homemade explosives found in several places and accused Muslim Brotherhood members of placing them, the statement said.
The 114 were arrested across the governorates of Cairo, Giza, Qalyubia, Dakhlia, Sharqiya, Gharbia, Bani Sweif and Minya, and were reportedly possessed machine guns, Molotov cocktails and placards containing inciting phrases, it added.
———PTI