Egypt's police fire tear gas at protesters
Clashes erupted in the Egyptian capital on Thursday between protesters and police, as the government scrambled to contain mounting anger over post-football match violence that killed 74 people.
Black-clad riot police fired tear gas at protesters trying to reach the interior ministry, furious at the lack of police intervention in Wednesday’s violence in the northern city of Port Said.
Injured protesters were ferried away by motorbike with medics saying around 20 people were suffering from tear gas inhalation.
Ambulances whizzed through the nearby Tahrir Square, epicenter of last year’s uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak, towards the site of the clashes.
Wednesday’s deadly violence between fans of home team Al-Masry and Cairo’s Al-Ahly marked one of the deadliest incidents in football history and sent shares on the Cairo stock exchange plunging in Thursday trade.
Hundreds of Al-Ahly fans, wearing their team T-shirts and waving flags, were joined by other team supporters, activists and ordinary Egyptians on the march from their club headquarters towards the interior ministry via Tahrir Square.
“This was not a sports accident, this was a military massacre!” the crowds chanted, blaming the ruling military council for the violence.
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