Photograph showing smoke coming from an encampment where pro-Morsi demonstrations have taken place. The camps were surrounded several have been killed., a photo by Pan-African News Wire File Photos on Flickr.
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14 August 2013
Last updated at 01:52 ET
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Pro-Morsi protest camps in Cairo being cleared
The interior ministry said security forces were taking "necessary measures" against the protesters
Egyptian security forces have begun clearing two protest camps in Cairo occupied by supporters of deposed President Mohammed Morsi.
Reports say 15 people have been killed as police cut off side streets and bursts of gunfire were heard.
Teargas is being fired and helicopters flew overhead as security forces moved on the camps in the east and west of the city.
The protesters want Mr Morsi, deposed by the military on 3 July, reinstated.
The interior ministry issued a statement saying security forces were taking "necessary measures" against the protest at the Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque in the east of Cairo and the protest in Nahda Square in the east.
The statement said a safe exit would be provided for protesters and they would not be pursued, "except those who are wanted by the prosecution".
The interior ministry is keen "not to shed any Egyptian blood", the statement went on.
Muslim Brotherhood TV, which is allied to the ousted president, called for people to send cars to the sit-ins to take casualties to hospital.
Protesters have been camped outside the mosque, and at Nahda Square for the past six weeks.
More than 250 people have been killed in clashes since then.
On Tuesday, one person was killed in a confrontation between supporters and opponents of Mr Morsi in Giza after people marched from Nahda Square to a nearby complex of government buildings to protest against the appointment of several military officers as provincial governors.
Egypt police attack Muslim Brotherhood sit-ins in Cairo
Ahram Online, Wednesday 14 Aug 2013
Egyptian police start clearing out two Muslim Brotherhood camps in Cairo in the early hours of Wednesday
Egyptian police surrounded the two main Muslim Brotherhood sit-ins in Cairo’s Nahda and Rabaa El-Adaweya squares shortly after dawn on Wednesday as they moved to disperse thousands of Islamists in both venues.
Live television footage showed riot police firing tear gas at protesters at one of the entrances of Rabaa El-Adaweya mosque in northern Cairo, where tens of thousands have been camping for more than 40 days to demand the reinstatement of ousted President Mohamed Morsi.
Brotherhood spokesman Gehad El-Haddad accused police snipers of firing at Rabaa protesters from the rooftop of surrounding buildings.
At the Nahda camp, centred round a traffic circle and extending down a palm tree-lined boulevard next to the Cairo zoo in Giza, greater Cairo, police used loudspeakers to urge protesters to leave amid sounds of gunfire.
A security source told Ahram Online that tens were injured. He also confirmed that some protesters were killed but the number of victims was not immediately known.
Egypt's state television said two policemen were killed and six wounded during the attempt to clear out the two sit-ins.
More details to follow.
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Egypt TV: Security forces clearing demonstrators
AP 1:38 a.m. EDT August 14, 2013
Egyptian television is reporting that security forces are clearing two tents of protesters.
Security officials say tear gas is being fired into two protest locations in Cairo.
CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian state TV says security forces are moving to clear two sit-in camps in support of the country's ousted President Mohammed Morsi.
Security officials say forces are firing tear gas into the larger of the two protest locations in Cairo, the encampment in the eastern Nasr City neighborhood.
At the smaller protest site outside the Cairo University campus is Giza, armored carriers were securing the area on Wednesday.
The pan-Arab Al-Arabiya TV is showing images of clouds of smoke from the tear gas, collapsed tents and tires burning at the Nasr City protest site. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
At least 250 people have died in clashes in Egypt following Morsi's July 3 ouster in a military coup.
13 August 2013 Last updated at 22:40 ET
One killed as Morsi supporters and opponents clash in Cairo
One person has been killed in clashes between supporters and opponents of Egypt's ousted President, Mohammed Morsi, in the capital, Cairo.
Birdshot was reportedly fired by both sides as people taking part in a pro-Morsi march were confronted by residents of a district of Giza.
After about 30 minutes of fighting, the Morsi supporters retreated to their nearby protest camp at Nahda Square.
Some 250 people have died since the military deposed Mr Morsi on 3 July.
The interim government has declared that international efforts to resolve the political crisis have failed, and rejects the demand of Mr Morsi's supporters that he be reinstated.
In recent days numbers have swelled at two mass sit-ins organised by the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist movement to which Mr Morsi belongs, at Nahda Square and outside the Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque.
The authorities have held back from attempting to clear the protest camps.
'Terrorists'
On Tuesday, thousands of Morsi supporters marched from Nahda Square towards the interior ministry to protest against the appointment of 10 military officers as provincial governors, replacing those who had been appointed by the deposed president.
They were confronted by residents of an area that is home to many people who oppose Mr Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood, who taunted them by calling them "terrorists".
The demonstrators tried to get into a compound that contains several government buildings, but were forced back.
People on both sides threw stones and bottles at each other before security forces fired tear gas to disperse the Morsi supporters.
"There's no going forward with negotiations, the only way is back. Morsi must be reinstated," Karim Ahmed, a student who took part in the march, told the Reuters news agency.
There were fresh clashes later in the evening, during which the person was killed and at least 10 others were wounded.
Security officials said birdshot was fired from both sides, as residents smashed the front of a department store owned by Islamists.
Millions took to the streets to demand Mr Morsi's removal, but correspondents say his ousting appears to be deepening the divisions in Egyptian society.
The US said it had been concerned by the reports of fresh violence.
"We're watching the situation on the ground very closely," state department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf told reporters in Washington. "We encourage the interim government to allow people to protest - that's a key part of moving forward with the democratic process."
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