For the second day in a row, Egyptians battled police forces in cities
around the country. In Cairo, thousands of protesters took on the police
in front of the hated Interior Ministry, blamed for being responsible
for the deaths of 74 people killed when a major soccer match erupted in
violence on Wednesday. Protesters threw rocks at police, who fired back
with tear gas, buckshot and rubber bullets. More than two thousand have
been injured and nine killed in two days of fighting, according to the
Health Ministry. The violence took place one block from the now infamous
Mohamed Mahmoud Street, where similar street battles took place less
than three months ago. Then, thousands were injured and 40 people were
killed by security forces, many by asphyxiation from tear gas. The
Military Council installed a new cabinet, and the new Interior Minister
vowed not to use tear gas on protesters again. That promise was not
kept. But protesters have proven more resilient than ever, tearing down
an enormous concrete block wall erected by the military after the
Mohamed Mahmoud battle, and occupying a government tax building.
Withstanding a steady barrage of tear gas and buckshot, the protesters
continued fighting into the night and the next day.
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