CAIRO
Infuriated by the bloody dispersal of two major protest camps in Cairo and Giza, supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi took the streets in several provinces nationwide late Thursday in defiance of a curfew imposed by the army-backed authorities.
In the coastal city of Alexandria, pro-Morsi supporters marched near Qaid Ibrahim Mosque to protest the bloody crackdown on Cairo's Rabaa al-Adawiya Square and Giza's Nahda Square on Wednesday.
Clashes erupted following verbal brawls between Morsi’s supporters and opponents, leaving at least 10 people killed and 70 others injured.
Security troops forcibly dispersed the two major protest camps for pro-Morsi protesters in Rabaa and Nahda on Wednesday.
The Health Ministry said at least 578 people had been killed in the ensuing violence, including 228 people in Rabaa and 90 people in Nahda.
But the National Alliance for the Defense of Legitimacy, a coalition of pro-Morsi Islamist parties and figures, has put the number of deaths from the dispersal of the Rabaa sit-in alone at some 2,600.
In the canal city of Suez Morsi supporters and opponents fought with stones and sticks following a march organized by the Muslim Brotherhood.
The clashes ended after military forces moved in to control the situation and enforce the curfew, which supposedly comes into effect at 7pm and continues until 6am.
In the Nile Delta province of Daqahliya, marches were organized in 12 towns with protesters chanting slogans against police and slamming its heavy-handed crackdown.
Hundreds of miles away, Muslim Brotherhood members rallied in Shibin al-Koum, the capital city of Menoufia province, to denounce the bloodshed.
In the south, two marches braved the curfew in Minya province.
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