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20 killed in clashes outside Egyptian Defence Min
At least 20 people were killed and many others injured on Wednesday when thugs attacked anti-military protesters with rocks, clubs, firebombs and shotguns near the Egyptian Defence Ministry in the tense run-up to the first Presidential elections in the post-Mubarak era.
Clashes between protesters around Egypt’s Ministry of Defence left 20 dead. The Health Ministry insists there were only six dead. Soldiers and police have now stopped the clashes, but the intervention came nearly six hours after they began.
Some reports also said the unidentified attackers were local people, angry at the disruption caused by the sit-in, which began on Saturday, the BBC reported. Many of the protesters who were attacked outside the Defence Ministry building, this morning were supporters of a Salafist preacher, Hazem Abu Ismail, barred from standing in the election.
The protesters claim the thugs attacking them are backed by the army as they have been photographed in a number of protests before and some of them were arrested by protesters and confessed to have been paid by the army to attack the protests.
At least 20 people were killed and many others injured on Wednesday when thugs attacked anti-military protesters with rocks, clubs, firebombs and shotguns near the Egyptian Defence Ministry in the tense run-up to the first Presidential elections in the post-Mubarak era.
Clashes between protesters around Egypt’s Ministry of Defence left 20 dead. The Health Ministry insists there were only six dead. Soldiers and police have now stopped the clashes, but the intervention came nearly six hours after they began.
Some reports also said the unidentified attackers were local people, angry at the disruption caused by the sit-in, which began on Saturday, the BBC reported. Many of the protesters who were attacked outside the Defence Ministry building, this morning were supporters of a Salafist preacher, Hazem Abu Ismail, barred from standing in the election.
The protesters claim the thugs attacking them are backed by the army as they have been photographed in a number of protests before and some of them were arrested by protesters and confessed to have been paid by the army to attack the protests.
