Bloodshed in Cairo Has a First Victim. There’s a Massacre, Says Media
In the center of Cairo escalated split between supporters and opponents of President Mubarak. People consecutive throwing stones and incendiary bottles and beaten with sticks. One person died, 400 others are wounded. People on the streets, destroying the pavement and do a rock stocks.
Is shooting through the streets, apparently fired into the air. According to the newsletter TH growing repression from the police and army against foreign media, said some colleagues no longer beating. The army did not intervene during the skirmishing almost seems to be worth Mubarak supporters. While in earlier days checked everyone in the square went there today and discharge of people with knives and sticks.
The square remained over four hundred wounded and at least one dead. According to state television is a policeman or a soldier. There’s a real massacre.
The same concern was raised by opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei, who is afraid that the skirmishes did not score in the bloodbath.
Tens of thousands of people protesting in the North African country has the ninth day. So far, squares and streets occupied only opponents of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, on Wednesday, but fell upon the center stage and his fans. The entree was spectacular. The barricaded Tahrir Square (Liberation), where opponents of Mubarak protest, penetrated about three thousand people, some of them on camels and horses. (More)
Anti-government protesters in Tahrir was about ten thousand. Between both groups there came a skirmish, which soon grew into bloody clashes. Egyptians fought each other with clubs, sticks and fists. Dozens of men according to Reuters broke the stone tiles and collect the “bullets” for their opponents. Dare to attack or incendiary bottles.
As in the past few days, even now, several hundred anti-government opponents decided to spend the night at Tahrir Square. It is not enough to them the president’s Tuesday statement that the forthcoming elections to be held in September, will not stand. The protesters want his immediate departure.
Still there are fears that the authoritarian president Hosni Mubarak will try to pass power to his son Gamal. Although Saturday named a new vice president Umar Sulajmána, thus suggesting who could replace the function.
Some believe that the supporters of eighty two year old Mubarak, who ruled the country for thirty years, were disguised policemen. The suspect gave the opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei, who is also evidence according to Reuters. Local interior minister denied this. ElBaradei said that “Mubarak wants the country to cause chaos.”
Many Egyptians are no longer simply tired of the endless protests. They feel that the promise of Mubarak protesters reached her, and now they should leave him. “Let the Egyptians to return home to their families,” he told BBC One of the supporters of President.
The army has intervened, but from the loudspeaker called for calm. The most critical section has gotten between the rival demonstrators several armored vehicles, the two groups separated. And in the morning the army on TV demonstrators called for the abandonment of the streets. She warned that if the life in Egypt returns to normal, you act.
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