Egypt Health Ministry says death toll from nationwide clashes, police raids rises to 95, with 874 wounded in push by Egyptian military to remove protestors demanding reinstatement of deposed President Mohamed Morsi.
Egyptian authorities have declared a state of emergency as violent clashes between supporters of deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi and the military that ousted him spread across the country Wednesday, killing dozens in a push to remove protesters from numerous points throughout Cairo.
Egypt’s health ministry said on Wednesday that 95 people had been killed on Wednesday in a police raid on supporters of deposed President Mohamed Mursi at a Cairo protest camp and clashes nationwide.”The dead are both from police and civilians. We are waiting to get more details,” said the ministry’s spokesman, Hamdi Abdel Karim, adding that 874 people had been wounded
The Islamist demonstrators who were demanding the reinstatement of deposed President Mohamed Morsi, his Muslim Brotherhood movement said.
The Egyptian presidency announced a one-month state of emergency across the country on Wednesday and ordered the armed forces to help the Interior Ministry enforce security.
The announcement made on state TV followed countrywide clashes between supporters of Morsi and the security forces.
The Health Ministry said 13 people were killed near theRabaa al-Adawiya mosque during the crackdown, including six police and eight civilians. The official death toll could well rise.
A television cameraman working for Britain’s Sky News was shot and killed in Cairo, Sky News said. Cameraman Mick Deane, 61, had worked for the BSkyB owned news channel for 15 years, based in Washington and then Jerusalem.
He is married with two sons.
“The loss of a much-loved colleague will be deeply felt across Sky News. Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife and family,” John Ryley, head of Sky News, said in a statement.
At least five people were killed in the Egyptian city of Suez, a health ministry official said, when supporters of deposed President Mohamed Morsi tried to storm a government building there.
Witnesses said an armored vehicle was set on fire during the attempt to storm the provincial governor’s office.
At least a further 17 people were killed on Wednesday in the Egyptian province of Fayoum, south of Cairo, a hospital official said, following fighting at police stations between supporters of Morsi and the security forces.
Morsi supporters attacked at least two police stations in Fayoum, setting fire to police vehicles outside one, witnesses said. There were also clashes outside the provincial governor’s offices.
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