'War zone': Scores feared dead in Cairo crackdown, protests spreading
A protester lies on the ground as Egyptian security forces disperse supporters of Egypt's ousted president Mohamed Morsi in a huge camp in Cairo's Al-Nahda square on August 14, 2013 (AFP Photo / Engy Imad)
Muslim Brotherhood spokesman Gehad El-Haddad claimed that as many as 2,000 people had been killed and 10,000 injured in the police operation.
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8 hrs of mass killings & not single sane person in Egypt or in world 2 stop this !! Over 2000 killed & over 10,000 injured & world watches
4:50 после полудня - 14 августа 2013
Protesters are accusing the military of ordering snipers to shoot at them from the rooftops of buildings surrounding the sit-in camps.
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10:31 утра - 14 августа 2013
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10:55 утра - 14 августа 2013
Egyptian police on Wednesday morning have sent in armored bulldozers to break up the protest outside Rabaa al-Adawiya in eastern Cairo, where one of the Muslim Brotherhood camps is located. Police also broke up a second protest site outside the Cairo University campus in Giza in the city's west.
Security troops used tear gas against protesters, and there were also reports of intensive gunfire in the area.
Supporters of Egypt's ousted president Mohamed Morsi and members of the Muslim Brotherhood run from tear gas smoke shot by police to disperse a pro-Morsi camp, on August 14, 2013 in Cairo (AFP Photo / Khaled Desouki)
“It is nasty inside, they are destroying our tents. We can't breathe inside and many people are in hospital,” protester Murad Ahmed described the camp crackdown.
Helicopters were circling over the protest sites, using loudspeakers to call on the demonstrators to leave.
Police and military forces had previously cordoned off the camps with barbed wire, leaving corridors for protesters to leave.
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12:05 после полудня - 14 августа 2013
Mohammed el-Beltagy, a senior Muslim Brotherhood leader, called on the police and army troops to mutiny against their commanders and for Egyptians to take to the streets in protest against military rule.
“Oh, Egyptian people, your brothers are in the square... Are you going to remain silent until the genocide is completed?” AP quoted him as saying. El-Beltagy is wanted by authorities to answer allegations of inciting violence.
Hours later El-Beltagy was arrested, Al-Arabiya reported, citing a security source.
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3:52 после полудня - 14 августа 2013
Egyptian military vehicles block a road leading to the Rabaa al-Adawiya protest camp in Cairo as Egyptian police try to disperse supporters of Egypt's ousted president Mohamed Morsi on August 14, 2013 (AFP Photo / Khaled Desouki)
Egyptian riot police disperse supporters of Egypt's ousted president Mohamed Morsi and members of the Muslim Brotherhood as security forces crackdown on two major pro-Morsi protest camps, on August 14, 2013 near Cairo's Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque (AFP Photo / Khaled Desouki)
2200 People have been killed according to Muslim Brotherhood spokesman Gehad El-Haddad
He claimed that as many as 2,000 people had been killed and 10,000 injured in the police operation.
Gehad El-Haddad @gelhaddad
8 hrs of mass killings & not single sane person in Egypt or in world 2 stop this !! Over 2000 killed & over 10,000 injured & world watches
4:50 после полудня - 14 августа 2013
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