2 killed, 3 critically injured in anti-austerity protests in Cairo
Two protesters were killed and three others seriously injured on Friday during clashes with police in the northern Cairo neighborhood of Matareya, according to a Ministry of Health statement.
The injured demonstrators have been transported to nearby hospitals, said the ministry.
In accordance with the controversial Protest Law, security forces fired bird shot and teargas to disperse the protest, which was reportedly organized against the austerity measures implemented by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s administration last week.
The protesters were identified as Islamist supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Arrests were also reported in Matareya, although the exact number of protesters detained was not immediately available.
According to a security source cited in the privately owned newspaper Al-Shorouk, another five Islamist protesters were arrested in Alexandria on Friday, where riot police forcibly dispersed another anti-austerity protest.
The Alexandria demonstration was also reportedly organized against Israel’s ongoing attacks on Gaza.
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