EGYPTIAN SECURITY FORCES STORM MOSQUE HOUSING BODIES OF RABAA PROTESTERS

        Cairo, 9 Shawwal 1434/16 August 2013 (MINA) – Egyptian security forces stormed a mosque housing dozens of bodies of slain supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi who had fallen during the security forces’ violent dispersal of their sit-in Wednesday.

      The troops fired salvos of teargas canisters before breaking into Iman Mosque in Nasr City, eastern Cairo, and forcing people out, witnesses told Anadolu Agency, quoted by Mi’raj News Agency (MINA) as reporting.

      Relatives of missing Morsi supporters had flocked to the mosque in the hope of finding loved ones who went missing in the aftermath of the security forces’ violent dispersal of the main sit-in camp in Rabaa al-Adawiya on Wednesday.

     According to witnesses, the security forces allowed only un-bearded people to leave the mosque, while those sporting beards were held inside.

     An AA reporter said 259 bodies were still inside the mosque at the time, including only 12 unidentified bodies.

     Egyptian security troops forcibly dispersed two major protest camps for pro-Morsi protesters in Cairo’s Rabaa al-Adawiya Square and Giza’s Nahda Square on Wednesday.

       Clashes later flared between angry Morsi supporters and security forces in several provinces nationwide.

       The Health Ministry said Thursday that at least 578 people had been killed in the violence, including 228 people in Rabaa and 90 people in Nahda.

      The official death toll given by the Health Ministry remains far below figures given by the National Alliance for the Defense of Legitimacy, a coalition of pro-Morsi Islamist parties and figures, which has put the number of deaths from the dispersal of the Rabaa al-Adawiya sit-in alone at some 2,600.

       Meanwhile, in Cairo contributors Amran Hamdani told MINA (Mi’raj News Agency) Thursday (15/8), the number of victims to still confusing, because according to local media Egypt itself subjective seen in bloody incidents reported yesterday, so there some of the media that covers and shrink the number of casualties and no media exaggerate.

      Hamdani is close to the scene got the info from sources it considers competent objective related casualties, said 300 people died in the forced dissolution in Nasr City, Cairo, are about 2,300 others died in other provinces where residents protesting the same throughout Egypt. (T/P09/E1).

Mi’raj News Agency (MINA).