EGYPT: 2 PRO-MORSI PROTESTERS KILLED, 3 INJURED IN ALEXANDRIA

Cairo, 3 Rajab 1435/3 May2014 (MINA) – Two pro-Morsi protesters were killed by live ammunition on Friday and three were injured in the Alexandria governorate during clashes with angry locals, an interior ministry statement read.

According to the statement the clashes erupted between hundreds of pro-Morsi supporters and angry locals after Friday prayers in Al-Dekhela area, West of Alexandria, but no confirmation yet of the local residents, according to Egypt’s Ahram report as quoted by Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA).

The ministry’s statement, published on its official Facebook page, said security forces eventually apprehended 42 pro-Morsi supporters in Cairo, Giza, Fayoum and Alexandria governorates.

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Friday protests have been common since Morsi’s ouster last July, although the Egyptian authorities in November issued a law criminalising unauthorised public demonstrations.

Morsi’s ouster also led to a spike in militant attacks, initially concentrated in the Sinai Peninsula, but in recent months becoming more common in the Nile Delta region and in Egypt’s capital.

Earlier on Friday, two suicide attacks in South Sinai targeted a checkpoint and a tour bus, leaving at least one conscript dead and nine others injured.

A low ranking police officer was killed and four other security personnel were injured in a bombing targeting traffic checkpoint in Cairo’s Heliopolis.(T/P03/P04)

Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)