Six people were killed and seven injured by security forces Friday during anti-regime protests that began following Eid al-Fitr prayers in Egypt’s Giza province west of Cairo, according to security and medical sources.
“Hospitals received the bodies of six people killed earlier today,” Health Ministry spokesman Hossam Abel Ghaffar told Anadolu Agency.
Sources in Cairo confirm that six protesters had been killed in the Al-Talbiya neighbourhood of southern Giza’s Al-Haram district “during clashes with security forces.”
According to the same source, another 12 people were arrested during the melee.
Eyewitnesses, meanwhile, said the casualties included one female demonstrator.
Eyewitnesses also said other parts of Giza – including the Nahiya and Al-Omraniyah districts – had also seen demonstrations against Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi, which, they said, had been put down by security forces firing live ammunition, leaving a number of dead and injured.
Egypt has been dogged by instability since Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, was overthrown in a military coup on July 3, 2013.
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