EGYPT: Medical sources say at least 15 people including children were killed after supporters of President Mohamed Mursi in Cairo were hit by gunfire

Record ID: 353899

  • Title: EGYPT: Medical sources say at least 15 people including children were killed after supporters of President Mohamed Mursi in Cairo were hit by gunfire
  • Date: 8th July 2013
  • Summary: (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) DOCTOR AT HOSPITAL, DR. ABDELRAHMAN, SAYING: "During sunrise prayers, people came from the Republican Guard barracks and they told us there was shooting happening. Here we received six dead bodies. There are cases which are comatose and they have been transferred to hospitals. There are more than 100 people with gunshot wounds and there are five kids w
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  • Location: Egypt
  • Country: Egypt
  • Topics: Crime,Conflict,General,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA815HB8I1K22FWQOF42KKWFM3I
  • Story Text: At least 15 people were killed on Monday (July 8) in Cairo, medical sources said, when the Muslim Brotherhood said shots were fired at supporters of deposed President Mohamed Mursi near the military building where he is being held.
    The Egyptian military said "a terrorist group" had tried to storm the building. One army officer had been killed and 40 wounded, the military said.
    Murad Ali of the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party said 34 Mursi supporters had been killed. He said shooting broke out in the early morning while Islamists staged a sit-in outside the Republican Guard barracks.
    A doctor at the hospital where the casualties were taken, near the mosque where Mursi supporters have been gathering, said children were among the dead.
    "During sunrise prayers, people came from the Republican Guard barracks and they told us there was shooting happening. Here we received six dead bodies. There are cases which are comatose and they have been transferred to hospitals. There are more than 100 people with gunshot wounds and there are five kids who have died. This is all from sunrise prayers until now and we are expect more cases," said Dr. Abdelrahman.
    A wounded man being treated after the incident said soldiers and police officers had opened fire.
    "The people who were firing the most were the military. The police were also firing but the military were firing more. We've been betrayed as though it's the military of the Jews. I saw them with my own eyes," he said.
    The military overthrew Mursi last Wednesday (July 3) after mass nationwide demonstrations led by youth activists demanding his resignation.
    The Brotherhood denounced the intervention as a coup and vowed peaceful resistance against the "usurper authorities".
    The ultra-conservative Islamist Nour party, which backed the military action, said it had withdrawn from negotiations to form a new interim government in protest at what it called the "massacre of the Republican Guard".
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