07.08.2013
At least 34 people have been killed in an attack
outside the headquarters of the Republican Guard in Cairo,
an Egyptian health ministry official says.
Khaled el-Khatib said initial reports indicated 34 people
were killed and 300 wounded in shooting outside the building
in the early hours of Monday.
Earlier, Egyptian military officials had said gunmen
killed at least five supporters of the former president
and one officer died when people tried to storm the building.
The Muslim Brotherhood said shots were fired at supporters
of deposed president Mohamed Morsi near the headquarters,
where Morsi is being held. The Egyptian military said
"a terrorist group" had tried to storm the building.
Murad Ali of the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party
said shooting broke out in the early morning
while Islamists staged a sit-in outside
the Republican Guard barracks.
Al-Jazeera's Egypt news channel broadcast footage
of what appeared to be five men killed in the violence,
and medics trying to resuscitate an unconscious man
at a makeshift clinic at a nearby pro-Morsi sit-in.
Ambulances were shown driving to and from the clinic.
The military overthrew Morsi last Wednesday after mass
nationwide demonstrations led by youth activists
demanding his resignation. The Brotherhood denounced
the intervention as a coup and vowed peaceful
resistance against the "usurper authorities".
The ultra-conservative Islamist AL-Nour party,
which backed the military action, said it had withdrawn
from negotiations to form a new interim government
in protest at what it called the
"massacre of the Republican Guard".
"We've announced our withdrawal from all tracks of negotiations
as a first response," Nader Bakar,
spokesman for Egypt's second biggest Islamist party
, said on Facebook.
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