Egypt protests commencing Friday leave many dozens dead as Military harshly escalates its response to the Pro - Morsi protesters ( perhaps 92 -120 killed , accounts vary )

http://rt.com/news/egypt-dead-clashes-brotherhood-664/

Clashes have left at least 92 people dead and hundreds injured in Cairo after security forces attacked supporters of ousted President Morsi, Egypt's Health Ministry told RT Arabic. However, the Muslim Brotherhood puts the death toll at over 200.

The casualties were taking part in a pro-Morsi rally when they were attacked by members of the security forces, the Brotherhood alleges. They used tear gas to disperse the activists, the Egyptian Interior Ministry has confirmed.

"They are not shooting to wound, they are shooting to kill," Muslim Brotherhood spokesman Gehad El-Haddad said to Reuters, adding that demonstrators had been hit by gunshot in the head and chest. 

During Friday night massive rallies were held in the Egyptian capital by Morsi supporters and his opponents. Egypt’s military has urged Brotherhood supporters to get behind their new plans for new elections.

On Saturday morning Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim stated that pro-Morsi protesters who had organized a sit-in at Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque in Cairo would be "brought to an end soon and in a legal manner.” The fresh violence follows the detention of ousted President Morsi over suspected links with Hamas. Morsi has been detained for 15 days and will be subjected to questioning over suspicions Hamas helped orchestrate his escape from prison in 2011 during the uprisings that ousted his predecessor President Hosni Mubarak. 

The Muslim Brotherhood called the allegations “ridiculous” and said Morsi’s detention marked a return to Mubarak’s repressive regime.

Since President Morsi was removed from office by the military on July 3, dozens of people have died in mass protests. In some of the worst violence since the unrest began in Egypt, 50 Morsi supporters were gunned down at a Cairo barracks on July 8 by security forces.

An injured Egyptian supporter (C) of the deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi is given medical aid by doctors in a field hospital after clashes with riot policemen in Cairo early on July 27, 2013.(AFP Photo / Ahmed Mahmud)

Members of the Muslim Brotherhood and supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi carry an injured protester injured during clashes with the police in Nasr city area, east of Cairo July 27, 2013. (Reuters/Asmaa Waguih)

Opponents of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi throw stones at his supporters during clashes in Nasr city area, east of Cairo July 27, 2013. (Reuters/Asmaa Waguih)

The body of a Muslim Brotherhood protester, shot dead in the Egyptian capital after violence erupted the night before, is evacuated as mourners watch in Cairo on July 27, 2013. (AFP Photo)

A car that members of the Muslim Brotherhood and supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi say was burnt by police and plain-clothed people is seen during clashes in Nasr city area, east of Cairo July 27, 2013. (Reuters/Asmaa Waguih)

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The Muslim Brotherhood claims 120 killed in overnight violence with police near Rabaa Al-Adawiya Mosque; Ministry of Health says only 38 dead arrived at hospitals so far according to health ministry

Ahram Online, Saturday 27 Jul 2013

Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi carry an injured man to a field hospital following clashes with security forces at Nasr City, where pro-Morsi protesters have held a weeks-long sit-in, in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, July 27, 2013. (Photo: AP)

Dozens of people have been killed after violent clashes in the vicinity of a sit-in by supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi at Rabaa Al-Adawiya Mosque in Cairo's Nasr City.

In the afternoon, the scene in front of the Memorial of the Unknown Soldier on Nasr Road, where clashes had taken place early on Saturday morning was calm. Army soldiers cleaned the streets while some protesters mourned the dead, reported Ahram Online's Randa Ali.

  Earlier on Saturday morning, police had continued to fire teargas in the vicinty as scuffles were still ongoing with supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi, state news agency MENA reported Saturday, while hundreds of protesters pelted stones at security forces and set fire to tires near barbed wire baracades that police set up to prevent protesters from advancing.

Violence erupted in the early hours of Saturday at the Memorial of the Unknown Soldier when police clashed with pro-Morsi protesters seeking to block the nearby 6 October Bridge.

The Muslim Brotherhood claims that at least 120 people were killed and 4,500 injured, according to figures from the makeshift field hospital of the pro-Morsi sit-in staged around Rabaa Al-Adawiya.