Sunday, January 30, 2011

Already more than 100 dead during protests in Egypt

At least 102 people have died (33 of them this Saturday) in five days of protests against the government, said security and medical sources. Ten deaths were noted around the town of Beni Sueif, 140 km south of Cairo, where he added 22 dead since the protesters tried to burn a police station, witnesses said.

The previous balance was 92 killed in protests that began on Tuesday. Three other people died on Saturday in Cairo, three in Rafah on the border with Gaza, and five in Ismailia, on the western bank of the Suez Canal. Other 62 people were killed Friday, 35 of them in Cairo, the daily protests for regime change in the most populous Arab country in the world.

Seven people died between Tuesday and Wednesday in Cairo and Suez, in these unprecedented protests to demand the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak. Several hundred people were injured this week.

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