EGYPT: Anti-government protesters attack the national headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo with petrol bombs and rocks

Record ID: 353892

  • Title: EGYPT: Anti-government protesters attack the national headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo with petrol bombs and rocks
  • Date: 30th June 2013
  • Summary: CAIRO, EGYPT (JUNE 30, 2013) (REUTERS) PROTESTERS OUTSIDE HEADQUARTERS OF MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD SMALL FIRE BURNING ON BUILDING EXTERIOR IN DISTANCE / PROTESTERS THROW ROCKS CLOSE OF FIRE ANOTHER FIRE BURNING ON HEADQUARTERS EXTERIOR PROTESTERS IN STREET PROTESTER INJURED LIFTS SHIRT TO SHOW WHAT APPEARS TO BE WOUNDS FROM PELLETS MORE OF PROTESTERS OUTSIDE HEADQUARTERS / FIRE
  • Embargoed: 15th July 2013 13:00
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  • Location: Egypt
  • Country: Egypt
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA3FO443RWEH6JMI9R5XYJW7B0O
  • Story Text: Anti-government protesters set the national headquarters of the ruling Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo ablaze on Sunday (June 30), throwing petrol bombs and exchanging gunfire with guards.
    The attack came amid protests across Egypt calling for President Mohamed Mursi of the Brotherhood to resign, in which hundreds of thousands demonstrated on the first anniversary of his inauguration.
    Brotherhood spokesman Gehad El-Haddad said he was in contact by telephone with staff at the compound on a rocky plateau overlooking Cairo, who told him its fortified perimeter had not been penetrated. Flames were licking out of upper-storey windows.
    Hundreds of anti-Mursi protesters gathered outside, kept back by shotgun blasts from inside the compound, continued to hurl flares and rocks. No police were present. Some protesters were taken away with wounds from birdshot.
    Several provincial offices of the Islamist movement have been attacked in recent days, including others on Sunday.
    Two men, including an American bystander, were killed when the Brotherhood's office in Alexandria was attacked on Friday (June 28) and dozens were wounded. The office was torched and ransacked.
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