At least five killed in Cairo clashes


  • World
  • Saturday, 29 Mar 2014

CAIRO (Reuters) - At least five people were killed in clashes in Cairo on Friday involving security forces, Muslim Brotherhood supporters and residents days after after hundreds of Islamists opposed to the military-backed government were sentenced to death.

Newspaper Al Dustour said one of its journalists, Mayada Ashraf, had died covering the fighting, the latest unrest in Egypt since the overthrow of President Mohamed Mursi,a Brotherhood leader, last July.

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