Clashes escalated between security troops and the Muslim Brotherhood students in Cairo University, who staged protests earlier on Wednesday inside the campus.
The students smashed the university's surveillance cameras, to which the security responded with bird shots.
Seven ambulances arrived on campus to help students with asphyxia as well as the injured as a result of the clashes.
One of the Brotherhood students attacked a passer-by, thinking he was helping the security to arrest the students.
In related news, police entered Azhar University to control the riots by the Muslim Brotherhood students.
Several armored vehicles entered the campus. Police arrested several Muslim Brotherhood students who participated in the events.
Meanwhile, the university expressed disappointment over the incidents saying in a statement that the Brotherhood students set fire to companies assigned with construction of fences of the university, describing the incidents as actions that should never conform to students.
Osama al-Abd, the university president, said the students set fire in front of the main gate which made police to intervene to regain control, especially as students hurled stones at police vehicles stationed outside the campus.
A Beni Suef University student was killed, other three were injured during clashes between the Muslim Brotherhood students and military and police personnel around the university premises upon staging march from faculties of sciences, literature and commerce.
Protesters blocked the road leading to the Beni Suef-Cairo agricultural road in front of the university. They allegedly fired shots against security, who responded by firing teargas bombs to disperse protesters.
Two injured were taken in a car by students who escaped. Ambulances transferred other two injured for treatment in Beni Suef Public Hospital. One of them passed away after arrival at the hospital, while the other is undergoing treatment.
One of the students who arrived at the hospital was in serious condition before passing away, said Hamdy Mostafa, head of the hospital. The other entered the hospital for an urgent surgery.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
