EGYPT: Security forces enter the Fateh mosque in Cairo where hundreds of Mursi supporters have been taking refuge since protests turned violent
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EGYPT: Security forces enter the Fateh mosque in Cairo where hundreds of Mursi supporters have been taking refuge since protests turned violent
- Title: EGYPT: Security forces enter the Fateh mosque in Cairo where hundreds of Mursi supporters have been taking refuge since protests turned violent
- Date: 17th August 2013
- Summary: CAIRO, EGYPT (AUGUST 17, 2013) (REUTERS) EGYPTIAN ARMY AND POLICE WALKING UP STEPS TO ENTER MOSQUE TWO MEMBERS OF SPECIAL FORCES STANDING INSIDE MOSQUE CLOSE OF ARMED SPECIAL FORCES MEMBERS, DRESSED IN BLACK, STANDING INSIDE MOSQUE ARMY AND POLICE STANDING INSIDE CORRIDOR, SPEAKING THROUGH DOORWAY TO MURSI-SUPPORTERS INSIDE MOSQUE MURSI SUPPORTERS CHAOS INSIDE MOSQUE / A
- Embargoed: 1st September 2013 13:00
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- Location: Egypt
- Country: Egypt
- Topics: General
- Reuters ID: LVA4CTAAJ1ZJW9JCK38XOHXVCWLM
- Story Text: Supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi exchanged gunfire with security forces around a Cairo mosque on Saturday (August 17), three Reuters witnesses said.
Security forces entered the Fateh mosque, where hundreds of Mursi supporters have been taking refuge since protests turned violent on Friday (August 16).
Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood has said it is committed to peaceful resistance to the army-backed government which toppled him. But a Brotherhood spokesman said this week that anger was out of control because of a bloody security crackdown. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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