A supporter of deposed Egyptian president Mohammed Mursi is beaten by government and army supporters during clashes that erupted at Tahrir Square and around the US Embassy in Cairo yesterday.
CAIRO: Clashes between supporters and opponents of Mohammed Mursi killed four people yesterday as the ousted Egyptian president’s family vowed to sue the army over his ouster.
At least 26 people were injured as the rival camps exchanged volleys of stones and birdshot, emergency services said.
Police fired tear gas in a bid to disperse the clashing demonstrators.
The fresh violence came as Mursi’s family said they planned to sue the military for having “kidnapped” the elected president, who has been in custody since the July 3 coup.
Shaimaa Mohammed Mursi, the toppled president’s daughter, told a news conference that the family was planning to take legal action in Egypt and abroad.
“We are taking local and international legal measures against Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, the leader of the bloody military coup, and his putschist group,” she said of the army chief.
The family held General Sisi responsible for Mursi’s safety.
Mursi has been detained at an unknown location since his overthrow.
Mursi’s son Osama said the family had not heard from him since. “None of us has had any contact with our father since the afternoon of the coup on July 3,” he told reporters.
The United States and Germany have led international calls for Mursi’s release, but Egypt’s interim authorities have rejected them, saying he is being held in a “safe place”.
Yesterday, one person was killed in clashes near Cairo’s Tahrir Square. Three more died in Qalyub, in the northern outskirts of the capital.
Members of the dissolved upper house of parliament, which was dominated by Mursi’s Islamist backers, held a meeting in Cairo’s Rabaa Al Adawiya mosque. Chanting “Sisi killer,” and anti-police slogans, demonstrators hung pictures of the ousted president on the gates of the public prosecutor’s office. People at the march dismissed the legitimacy of the interim authorities.
AFP
