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Posted on 01/14/2014 3:27:27 PM PST by mojito
The Health Ministry says clashes between police and protesters loyal to former President Mohammed Morsi have left at least 11 people dead on the first day of a vote on Egypt's new constitution.
The clashes began hours after Egyptians began voting on the new charter that represents a key milestone in a military-backed roadmap put in place since the ouster of Morsi last July.
The ministry says the deaths occurred in Cairo, the adjacent province of Giza and two provinces south of the capital, Bani Suef and Sohag. The statement says 28 people also have been wounded.
A Morsi supporter also was shot to death as he and about 100 others tried to storm a polling station in Bani Suef, said the officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media. It was not clear who was behind the shooting.
In Cairo's working-class district of Nahya, pro-Morsi protesters shot at a polling station and pelted it with rocks before closing all entrances with chains, scaring away voters and locking election officials inside, Mohammed Seragedeen, the judge in charge of the station, said.
Shortly before polls opened, an explosion also struck a Cairo courthouse, damaging its facade and shattering windows in nearby buildings but causing no casualties in the densely populated neighborhood of Imbaba -- a Brotherhood stronghold.
A massive security operation was under way to protect polling stations and voters against possible attacks by militants loyal to Morsi, with 160,000 soldiers and more than 200,000 policemen deployed across the nation of some 90 million people.
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The Egyptians understand what dead-enders the islamicists are. They must be stopped from installing their insane sharia law. Good luck, Egyptians.
...clashes between police and protesters loyal to former President Mohammed Morsi have left at least 11 people dead on the first day of a vote... The statement says 28 people also have been wounded. A Morsi supporter also was shot to death as he and about 100 others tried to storm a polling station in Bani Suef... In Cairo's working-class district of Nahya, pro-Morsi protesters shot at a polling station and pelted it with rocks before closing all entrances with chains, scaring away voters and locking election officials inside... Shortly before polls opened, an explosion also struck a Cairo courthouse, damaging its facade and shattering windows in nearby buildings but causing no casualties in the densely populated neighborhood of Imbaba -- a Brotherhood stronghold.Eleven dead, 28 wounded -- a slow weekend in Chicago, a town where they never even have real elections. Egypt's only discernable problem is, not enough dead Morsi supporters. Thanks mojito.
11 dead 28 wounded? That’s only considered a MB jihadist “peaceful” protest.
Egypt must utterly destroy Morsi’s hordes of rabid hyenas! Their name and memory should be erased!
I do hope the boys in khaki don't kill TOO many Worthy Oriental Gentlemen, though. Cairo smells plenty bad enough with live Gippos.
Very unfair ... but accurate ... of you to contrast this minor hiccup with a typical Chicago weekend. Also unwise. If Barry (of Barry'n'Reggie) learns that his belovèd Muslims are falling behind in the violence department, he may send them more aid for better weapons.
Wow!
Just like Filthydelphia.
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