Forensics say journalist killed by gunshot to head on Friday

A journalist who died amid Friday clashes between police and Muslim Brotherhood supporters was killed by a gunshot wound to the head, according to forensics official Hisham Abdel Hamid.

Mayada Ashraf, 22, was killed with a single bullet that penetrated the left-hand side of her head and exited out the other side, the website of state-run daily Al-Ahram cited Abdel Hamid as saying on Saturday.

Abdel Hamid added that the distance between the gunman and the victim would have been a few meters and that that the shooter was probably higher than Ashraf, standing on a pavement or a car when he took the shot.

Ashraf, a journalist with privately owned newspaper Al-Dostour, was killed in Friday's violence between police and Muslim Brotherhood supporters in the Alf Maskan district of Ain Shams.

Four other people died during the clashes in eastern Cairo.

Abdel Hamid added that Ahmed Mohamed Gahallah, 29, died from a bullet to the head while Karim Mahmoud Salama received a bullet in the chest.

The physician added that Mary Sameh George, 26, was also killed by a bullet wound to the chest and 14-year-old Sherif Abdel Raouf Sherif died from another gunshot wound to the head.

Abdel Hamid added that it was not possible to determine the firearms used because the bullets exited the bodies of all victims.

Supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood had called for protests on Friday to stand against Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's decision to run for president. Sisi, who resigned from his position as minister of defense on Wednesday to be able to take part in elections, ousted former President and Muslim Brotherhood affiliate Mohamed Morsi from power last July after mass protests calling for early presidential elections.