Two-hundred arrested for possessing weapons at protest camps – agency

0,,16941134_303,00The Egyptian authorities have arrested 200 people at the Muslim Brotherhood’s protest camps in Rabaa al-Adawiya and Nahda Squares for possessing firearms and white weapons, security sources said as quoted by the state news agency. Fifty of those arrested at the Rabaa al-Adawiya sit-in were possessing weaponry and gas cylinders, according to the security sources. The security forces also arrested 150 people from the Giza’s Nahda Square sit-in, all of whom belong to the Muslim Brotherhood and possessed weapons. The sources added that the necessary legal measures are to be taken against the detainees. State television showed footage of the weapons and ammunition found at the Rabaa al-Adawiya sit-in. This content is from :Aswat Masriya

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