CAIRO (AA) – Death toll from the clashes between supporters and opponents in the Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria rose to seven.
“More three dead bodies arrived in the hospital along with 10 injured in the clashes near Qaid Ibrahim Mosque in Alexandria,” head of the Amiri hospital in Alexandria told AA. Four people were killed and 50 others injured earlier Thursday in the violence.
The scuffles erupted following verbal brawls between the pro- and anti-Morsi protesters about the forcible dispersal of two major sit-ins staged by Morsi’s backers in Cairo and Giza on Wednesday.
The violence followed a march by the Muslim Brotherhood in the city to protest the violent crackdown to the iconic Alexandria mosque, which left hundreds dead and injured.
"The Brotherhood would keep protesting and would not abide by the curfew," Anas al-Qadi, Brotherhood spokesman in Alexandria, said.
According to the Health Ministry, at least 578 were killed nationwide in Wednesday's violence, including 202 people cut down during the dispersal of a main pro-Morsi sit-in in Cairo's Rabaa al-Adawiya Square.
However, the official death toll remains far below figures given by the pro-Morsi National Alliance for the Defense of Legitimacy, which has put the number of deaths from the Rabaa sit-in alone at 2,600.
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