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Saturday, February 16, 2013

126 injuries in Egypt in clashes pendemo-security forces

Cairo (Reuters)-at least 128 people injured, Friday (8/2), in a clash between members of the security forces and anti-Government protestors in various places in Egypt, when protestors took to the main streets and public squares across the country.

"As much as 126 people injured across the country. As many as 67 injured in Gubernuran Gharbiya, 80 kilometers north of Cairo, while seven people injured in Alexandria, Kafr Esh seven in Gubernuran-Sheikh, four in Sharqiya and Gubernuran four people again outside the Presidential Palace in Cairo, "said Health Ministry spokesman Ahmed Omar told Xinhua.

Omar added all the victims suffered various injuries between scratched, burning, choking smoke and broken bones. He also said some security personnel were reported injured President of metal used to "shoot" a bird, but it has not been confirmed.

In the town of El-Mahalla in Gharbiya, fierce Gubernuran clashes occurred between security personnel and protesters who tried to break through the gates of the City Council, said Xinhua--which monitored BETWEEN in Jakarta on Saturday morning.

Security personnel will disperse them by using tear gas, but small clashes still occur, thus paralysing traffic and forcing shops in the area closed.

Meanwhile, scores of protestors tried to attack the headquarters of the justice and Freedom Party (FJP), belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood, and also the Gubernuran police station in Gharbiya, around 80 kilometres north of Cairo, but the security forces managed to disperse them.

In Cairo, protestors attempted to move the barbed wire around the Presidential Palace in the capital city of Egypt, and climb the gate, while others threw rocks toward the Palace.

Presidential guards withdrew and assembled inside the palace complex in order to avoid clashes with protesters, while the protesters--most still under--trying to throw rocks and firecrackers into the Palace. But the other protestors to prevent them in order to avoid a clash with the security forces, said Xinhua cameraman from the scene.

The situation escalated when some protestors set fire to one of the gates of the Palace which resulted in the burning of trees nearby, inside the Palace, said Egypt's official news agency, MENA.

Near the roundabout At-Tahrir in Cairo, a number of protestors trying to break down the wall that separates the protestors and the Ministry of the Interior, but that situation can end up having some small controlled clashes between protesters and security officers.

In Alexandria, fierce clashes erupted between members of the security forces and protesters who tried to break into a police station in the area of Sedi Gaber Abou Qir have revealed extensive, while the police attempted to disperse them with tear gas.

Fierce clashes also erupted in similar Gubernuran of Kfar Esh-Sheikh, 125 kilometers north of Cairo, when the protestors tried to break through into the headquarters of the Governor. That event makes the security forces used tear gas against protestors who threw stones towards them, said several eyewitnesses told Xinhua.

Police arrested three protesters accused of inciting riots and betrokan.

(C003)



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