11 killed in revolt anniversary protests
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At least eleven protesters were killed in Egypt and a bomb wounded two policemen yesterday, the anniversary of the 2011 uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak, security sources said.
The anniversary is a test of whether Islamists and liberal activists facing one of Egypt’s toughest security crackdowns have the resolve to challenge the US-backed government once again.
Security forces have been stamping out dissent since then-army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ousted elected President Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood in 2013 after mass protests.
Dozens of protesters were killed during last year’s anniversary. This time, security forces were taking no chances, fanning out across the capital and elsewhere.
Riot police backed by soldiers in armored vehicles sealed off strategic roads, including those leading to Cairo’s Tahrir Square, the symbolic heart of the 2011 revolt.
A protester died yesterday from birdshot wounds in Alexandria, Egypt’s second biggest city, the security sources said. The Interior Ministry said the man had been armed.
A second protestor was killed by birdshot in the Cairo suburb of Matariya, a Brotherhood stronghold, as hundreds of people demonstrated, security sources said. Three policemen were wounded in clashes there, the state news agency reported.
Two suspected Islamists were also killed in the Nile Delta province of Beheira when an explosive device they were planting under a high-voltage tower exploded, according to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
The Egyptian Health Ministry reportedly said as many as 11 were killed throughout the day’s protests.
Separately, a bomb wounded two policemen stationed outside a Cairo sports club, security sources said.
In rare defiance, Mursi supporters gathered near Tahrir and held up photographs of him. Police rounded them up. Security sources said 70 Muslim Brotherhood supporters were arrested in Alexandria and another 12 rounded up near Tahrir.A curfew imposed in north Sinai had been extended for three months, authorities said.
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