School pupil killed at pro-Brotherhood protest in Damietta

One person was killed on Friday during clashes between police and supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Nile Delta’s Damietta governorate, Al-Ahram’s Arabic news website reported.

School pupil Abdullah Nawara died in the clashes, which saw supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi squarring off with police in the governorate, located northeast of Cairo on the Meditteranean coast.

Protesters shouted slogans against the police and army until security forces arrived and dispersed them with teargas. Eleven others were reportedly injured in the clashes.

Twelve others were arrested during the violence, Al-Ahram added.

West of Damietta on the same coast, clashes also errupted in Alexandria during a funeral for a student killed in previous clashes in the city on Thursday.

Supporters and opponents of the Brotherhood threw bricks and stones in the Al-Dekhaila district, in the western part of the city, with protesters blocking a road before police intervened to separate both sides.

Earlier in the day, at least five were killed and more than 80 injured in three separate bomb attacks targeting police buildings and personnel in Cairo and Giza, heightening tensions in Egypt a day ahead of planned protests to mark the anniversary of the 2011 uprising.

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