EGYPT: An eyewitness in Cairo says one man was killed after being run over at an anti-government demonstration outside Egypt's parliament building

Record ID: 863107

  • Title: EGYPT: An eyewitness in Cairo says one man was killed after being run over at an anti-government demonstration outside Egypt's parliament building
  • Date: 27th November 2011
  • Summary: CAIRO, EGYPT (NOVEMBER 26, 2011) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF DEMONSTRATORS CHANTING OUTSIDE EGYPTIAN PARLIAMENT BUILDING VARIOUS OF SECURITY PERSONNEL STANDING BEHIND RAZOR WIRE VARIOUS OF DEMONSTRATORS STANDING OUTSIDE EGYPTIAN PARLIAMENT BUILDING (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) DEMONSTRATOR MOSTAFA HUSSEIN, SAYING: "Of course one of us ran after them. The vehicle came from behind and ran over him twice, with the two front wheels and the two back wheels. By the time we picked him up, it was over. There was another one who was shot but I didn't see him." SECURITY PERSONNEL LEAVING TEMPORARY MEDICAL POINT VARIOUS OF VOLUNTEERS SORTING THROUGH MEDICAL SUPPLIES AT MEDICAL POINT VARIOUS OF DEMONSTRATOR SLEEPING ON STREET IN FRONT OF WALL OF PARLIAMENT BUILDING WITH ANTI-GOVERNMENT GRAFFITI BARBED WIRE / SECURITY PERSONNEL STANDING PARLIAMENT BUILDING SEEN THROUGH FENCE WITH BARBED WIRE ON IT
  • Embargoed: 12th December 2011 12:00
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  • Location: Egypt, Egypt
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  • Country: Egypt
  • Topics: Politics
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  • Story Text: One man died as he demonstrated outside the Egyptian parliament building in Cairo on Saturday (November 26), an eyewitness said.
    Ahmed Sayed was reportedly killed after being hit by a state security vehicle.
    "The vehicle came from behind and ran over him twice, with the two front wheels and the two back wheels. By the time we picked him up, it was over," said eyewitness Mostafa Hussein.
    Egypt's interior ministry said the vehicle had hit the 21-year-old by accident.
    The eyewitness also said there were reports of a second death in the Egyptian capital on Saturday.
    "There was another one who was shot but I didn't see him," said Hussein.
    The violence flared as protesters demanding an end to army rule clashed with police firing tear gas near Egypt's parliament building.
    The clash occurred after one group marched to parliament to protest against the army's appointment of 78-year-old Kamal Ganzouri, a premier under Hosni Mubarak, as new prime minister.
    Tahrir protesters have dismissed Ganzouri, premier from 1996 to 1999, as another face from the past whose appointment reflects the generals' resistance to change.
    Saturday's reported deaths were the first since a truce between police and demonstrators on Thursday calmed violence that had killed 41 people in Cairo and elsewhere.
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