TEN YEARS BOY KILLED IN CLASHES EGYPT

    Cairo, 19 Muharram 1435/23 November 2013 (MINA) – Egypt’s Health Ministry said that one of two people killed in clashes that marred Friday protests by pro-democracy demonstrators is a ten-year-old child.

    That child identified as Samir al-Gamal, was killed in clashes between supporters and opponents of ousted president Mohamed Morsi in the canal city of Suez, the head of Egypt’s ambulance service said in a statement.

    A youth was also killed in eastern Cairo and 14 were injured, Anadolu Agency quoted by Mi’raj News Agency (MINA) as reporting.

    In a statement, the “Azhar Students against the Coup” movement identified the slain youth as Azhar University student Salah Abu Hemeida.

    Abu Hemeida was shot dead by police during clashes with security forces that had been trying to disperse a protest near Azhar University in eastern Cairo.

   In a statement, the pro-democracy National Alliance for the Defense of Legitimacy held the army and Interior Ministry responsible for Friday’s deaths.

    Abu Hemeida is the second Al-Azhar student to be killed in clashes with security forces within the last three days.

     In response, the Al-Azhar Student Union declared a strike, saying students would not attend scheduledexams in early December.

    It added that union members would not take theirexams unless students arrested during recent protests were released by authorities to “take exams with their colleagues.”

    Pro-democracy protesters staged fresh rallies on Friday to mark the passage of 100 days since the bloody August 14 dispersal of two protest camps held by supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi.

     According to the pro-democracy alliance, anotherthree protesters were injured when they were struckby a car in the Nile Delta city of Kafr al-Sheikh.

     An Anadolu Agency correspondent at the scene, however, said at least six people had been injured in the incident. (T/P09/P04).

Mi’raj News Agency (MINA)