In pictures: Tensions in Egypt flare as clashes break out
In pictures: Tensions in Egypt flare as clashes break out
Show all 35Heavy bursts of automatic gunfire were ringing through the streets of eastern Cairo this morning as the Egyptian authorities went to war with Islamists cowering amid the tents and alleyways of their huge protest camp in Nasr City, a suburb of the capital. Latest estimates from the Muslim Brotherhood put the number of dead well into the hundreds.
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