Massacre in Cairo
A deadly shooting at the site of a sit-in by Muslim Brotherhood supporters in Cairo, demanding the reinstatement of ousted President Mohamed Morsi, has left dozens of people dead. The Egyptian health ministry said at least 42 people had been killed and more than 300 injured in the incident early on Monday morning.
Mohamed Mohamed Ibrahim El-Beltagy, a Brotherhood MP, described the incident during dawn prayers after police had stormed the site, as a "massacre". About 500 people were also reportedly injured. A doctor told Al Jazeera that "the majority of injured had gunshot wounds to the head". The Brotherhood said the dead and the injured have been taken to a makeshift hospital in the the Nasr City neighbourhood. Speaking to Al Jazeera, Gehad Haddad, a spokesman for Muslim Brotherhood, said that at around 3.30 in the morning, army and police forces started firing at sit-in protesters in front of the Republican Guard headquarters in Cairo. “We have people hit in the head, we have bullets that exploded as they entered the body, cluttering organs and body parts,” said Haddad. “Every police force in the world understands how to disperse a sit-in. This is just a criminal activity targeting protesters.”
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