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Egyptian official: Clashes erupt at Islamist demonstration in Cairo, at least

The clashes erupted following the Eid Al-Fitr prayers which took place on Friday morning, as the Brotherhood supporters held minor protests and clashed with other local residents.

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Two radical disagreements between safety and security influences and protestors has said the everyday life of 7 certain people and disabled about three.

The ministry said the man killed in Nahia was a known Brotherhood supporter and demonstrator who had previously been detained by police.

Since Morsi’s overthrow, at least 1,400 people, mostly Islamists, have been killed in a police crackdown on protests.

Last month, the country’s top prosecutor was killed in a vehicle bombing on his way to work in the city, prompting a furious President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to pledge tougher anti-terrorism laws.

Security officers also attacked a demonstration in Alexandria’s neighborhood of Hanoville following Eid prayers.

The Muslim Brotherhood is a transnational religious-political organization, founded in Egypt in 1928.

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Officials said the protesters attacked security forces stationed in Cairo’s Talbiya district near the Giza pyramids on Friday.

An Egyptian navy vessel was targeted on Thursday by militants affiliated with the Islamic State group, who claimed they destroyed it with a rocket while it was anchored off the Sinai peninsula’s Mediterranean coast.

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Festival turns bloody in Egypt