Three Women Killed in Egypt Clashes

Egyptians clash with security forces in Cairo on July 15, 2013. Demonstrators expressed opposition to the military coup that displaced President Mohamed Morsi., a photo by Pan-African News Wire File Photos on Flickr.

Three female protesters killed in Egypt clashes

Sat Jul 20, 2013 2:31AM GMT
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Three female protesters have been killed in clashes between opponents and supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi in the Nile Delta city of Mansura, according to medical officials.

"Three people were killed and seven others wounded by birdshot and stabbing attacks during clashes between Morsi supporters and his opponents," Adel Said, a hospital official in Mansura, said on Saturday morning.

He added that all of the three people who were killed on Friday were women.

Abdel Wahab Suleiman, another medical official in Mansura, confirmed the death toll, saying three women were killed by gunshots.

Ten people were also injured and one of them ias in a critical condition, he added.

Thousands of protesters were marching through the city's narrow streets when "thugs" attacked them with guns, knives, and rocks, a Morsi supporter injured in the clashes said.

On Friday, tens of thousands of Muslim Brotherhood activists and their supporters took to the streets of Cairo and other cities to demand Morsi's reinstatement.

Thousands of people also held demonstrations across the country in favor of the military coup against Morsi, the country’s first democratically elected president.

In a televised speech late on the night of July 3, Egyptian army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced that Morsi, a former leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood, was no longer in office and declared that the head of the Supreme Constitutional Court, Adly Mahmoud Mansour, had been appointed as the new interim president of Egypt. The army also suspended the constitution.

Army officials said Morsi, who took office in June 2012, was being held “preventively” by the military.

On July 4, Mansour was sworn in as interim president.

On July 5, Muslim Brotherhood supreme leader Mohammed Badie said the coup against Morsi was illegal and millions would remain on the street until he is reinstated as president.

Badie vowed to "complete the revolution" that toppled the Western-backed regime of former Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak in 2011.

The Egyptians launched a revolution against the pro-Israeli regime on January 25, 2011, which eventually brought an end to the 30-year dictatorship of Mubarak on February 11, 2011.