One man was killed and seven others were injured on Sunday as security clashed with supporters of former president Mohamed Morsi at Beni Suef province, south of Cairo.
The clashes erupted after police detained four local Muslim Brotherhood figures suspected to have involved in the arson of Wasta police station in 2013 during wides-scale Brotherhood protests that condemned the bloody dispersal of sit-ins by group backers in Cairo following Morsi’s ouster.
Protesters shot at police forces with BB guns and stoned them on their exit from the village, whereby the forces besieged the village and fired tear gas at the protesters.
Ahmed Anwar, head of Beni Suef’s health department, said the encounters left one dead and seven injured.
On Friday, the weekly peak day for Brotherhood protests against the current authorities that toppled Morsi, four people were killed in separate clashes across the country.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
