One killed, scores arrested in clashes amid Egypt pro-Morsi protests

A 17-year-old girl was shot dead on Friday in clashes during protests supporting ousted Islamist President Mohamed Morsi in Egypt's Alexandria coastal province, about 220 km north of the capital Cairo, official MENA news agency reported.

"Sondos Reda Abu Bakr, a 17-year-old girl, died in the hospital after being injured during the clashes in Miami neighborhood in Alexandria," MENA quoted a Health Ministry source in Alexandria as saying.

An Alexandria chief detective Sherif Abdel-Hamid denied any use of gunfire on the part of the police while dispersing the marches.

Meanwhile, the police arrested on Friday 30 supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood group, from which Morsi hailed, during marches in Alexandria.

Also on Friday, similar marches were staged in Cairo and other provinces including Port Said, Minya, Minufiya, Sharqiya and Qalioubiya and 15 more were arrested.

Since Morsi's removal by the military in July, 2013, the following crackdown on his loyalists left about 1,000 killed and thousands more arrested.

Morsi's supporters have been holding weekly protests denouncing his removal as "a coup," yet the protests have been getting smaller due to massive security campaigns.

Meanwhile, extremist groups killed hundreds through terrorist attacks against police and military personnel and premises in the Sinai Peninsula and other provinces across the country over the past year in response to Morsi's removal and the crackdown on his loyalists.

The Muslim Brotherhood group, most of whose members are in custody including Morsi himself, has been blacklisted by the Egyptian authorities as a terrorist group and its members were also banned from running for presidential and parliamentary elections. Endit