Cairo: Several hundred Egyptians occupied Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday, with sporadic clashes between protesters and the police following a night of deadly violence, an AFP correspondent said.
Anti-riot police fired regular rounds of tear gas as dozens of protesters set up barricades near the interior ministry on the edge of the plaza, the symbolic heart of protests that toppled Hosni Mubarak's regime in February.
In makeshift hospitals set up in mosques around Tahrir Square, demonstrators were receiving treatment for tear gas inhalation, and injuries from rubber bullets and birdshot.
"The SCAF is pursuing the policies of Mubarak, nothing has changed," protester Khaled, 29, told AFP as he was erecting his tent in the middle of the square.
Overnight, clashes between protesters and police left two dead and hundreds injured in Cairo and Alexandria, one week ahead of the first legislative elections since the downfall of Mubarak's regime.
Anti-riot police fired regular rounds of tear gas as dozens of protesters set up barricades near the interior ministry on the edge of the plaza, the symbolic heart of protests that toppled Hosni Mubarak's regime in February.
In makeshift hospitals set up in mosques around Tahrir Square, demonstrators were receiving treatment for tear gas inhalation, and injuries from rubber bullets and birdshot.
"The SCAF is pursuing the policies of Mubarak, nothing has changed," protester Khaled, 29, told AFP as he was erecting his tent in the middle of the square.
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Overnight, clashes between protesters and police left two dead and hundreds injured in Cairo and Alexandria, one week ahead of the first legislative elections since the downfall of Mubarak's regime.
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