CAIRO
A senior leader of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) has said some army soldiers refused orders to fire at protesters during the events outside the Republican Guards headquarters earlier Monday.
Mohammad Beltagi showed unused bullets collected by protesters outside the Republican Guards compound.
"This shows that orders were given to some officers to fire, but they refused," he told Anadolu Agency.
"We pin hopes on those honorable officers and the whole Egyptian people.”
The army said one officer was killed and several soldiers were wounded in an attempt by “a terrorist group” to storm the compound.
At least 42 people were killed and 322 others injured outside the Republican Guards compound, the Egyptian Ambulance Authority said.
The Muslim Brotherhood said at least 53 people, including five children, were killed and hundreds were wounded when army and police forces opened fire on peaceful protesters outside the HQ.
Morsi's supporters have been camping outside the compound where they think the deposed Islamist president was being held since military coup on July 3.
Under an army roadmap, the constitution has been suspended and the head of the Constitutional Court has been sworn in as interim president.
