Death toll in Egypt violence rises to 525
CAIRO — An Egyptian Health Ministry spokesman has raised the death toll from the previous day’s clashes between police and supporters of the country’s ousted president to 525.
A man walks inside the burnt Rabaa Adawiya mosque, the morning after the clearing of the site in which was held around the mosque, in Cairo, August 15, 2013. Photo: Reuters
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CAIRO — An Egyptian Health Ministry spokesman has raised the death toll from the previous day’s clashes between police and supporters of the country’s ousted president to 525.
The spokesman Khaled el-Khateeb told The Associated Press today (Aug 15) that the number of injured in the previous day’s violence has also risen and now stood at 3,717.
Yesterday’s violence began when police moved to clear two sit-in camps in Cairo by supporters of Mohammed Morsi, ousted in a military coup on July 3. The clashes there later spread to elsewhere in Cairo and a string of other cities.
Mr El-Khateeb said 202 of the dead were killed in the larger of the two camps, in Cairo’s eastern Nasr City district.
The violence prompted the government to declare a nationwide, month-long state of emergency. AP
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