CAIRO
One person was killed during a rally staged Wednesday by supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi, Egypt's Health Ministry said.
The pro-democracy National Alliance for the Defense of Legitimacy, however, said that four people were killed during the demonstrations.
In a statement, the Health Ministry said that one person had been killed in the central Beni Sueif province.
The ministry added that eight other people had been injured during Wednesday demonstrations in different parts of the country.
According to the Health Ministry, two were injured outside Cairo's Al-Azhar University, three in the coastal city of Alexandria and three others in Beni Sueif.
The Interior Ministry, however, said that only three people had been injured – in BeniSueif –during Wednesday's rallies.
However, the pro-democracy National Alliance for the Defense of Legitimacy, Morsi's main support bloc, said four people were killed during the rallies.
"The alliance is still preparing a final toll of today's rallies," Emam Youssef, a member of the Salafist Al-Asalah party, a member of the alliance, told Anadolu Agency.
Mahmoud al-Azhari, a spokesman for the "Students against coup" group, said two students from the Nile Delta province of Menoufiya and two others from Beni Sueif were killed during Wednesday's protests.
The pro-democracy bloc has called for an 11-day-long "revolutionary wave" starting from March 19.
Three years ago today, millions of Egyptians voted on constitutional amendments introduced by Egypt's then-ruling Supreme Military Council, which took over from former president Hosni Mubarak following the latter's ouster.
Critics, however, say those amendments ultimately served to divide Egypt's revolutionary current.
By Hagar al-Dosoki
englishnews@aa.com.tr
