Four dead as protesters clash with police in Cairo

Four people died and 12 were injured when protesters clashed with police in a Cairo suburb, news agencies have reported.

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CAIRO Four people died and 12 were injured when protesters clashed with police in a Cairo suburb, news agencies have reported. According to the Egyptian Health Ministry, the 12 wounded include two officers and a police conscript. Four dead as protesters clash with police in Cairo Clashes near a police station in Shubra al-Kheima broke out at dawn when relatives and friends of an Egyptian, who had been shot by the police, gathered on the street. AP has reported that clashes began when the bystander was hit by a stray bullet fired by police chasing an alleged drug dealer. The police managed to disperse the protesters after the clashes. Clashes between police and civilians have been common since the ouster of autocratic leader Hosni Mubarak in an uprising nearly two years ago. Police brutality was one of the major causes of the 2011 uprising, AP points out. (Beta/AP) Tanjug

Four dead as protesters clash with police in Cairo

Clashes near a police station in Shubra al-Kheima broke out at dawn when relatives and friends of an Egyptian, who had been shot by the police, gathered on the street.

AP has reported that clashes began when the bystander was hit by a stray bullet fired by police chasing an alleged drug dealer. The police managed to disperse the protesters after the clashes.

Clashes between police and civilians have been common since the ouster of autocratic leader Hosni Mubarak in an uprising nearly two years ago. Police brutality was one of the major causes of the 2011 uprising, AP points out.

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