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Egypt revolution anniversary death toll rises to 23

Xinhua, January 26, 2015 Adjust font size:

The death toll from clashes on Sunday between protesters and the police has risen to 23, as Egypt marked the fourth anniversary of its 2011 revolution that ousted former president Hosni Mubarak, the Health Ministry statement said on Monday.

The clashes left 20 dead in Cairo, Giza and Alexandria including two police officers and two Copts, while the other three were killed when planting explosive devices near a security checkpoint and power plants in provinces of Behera and Damietta, the statement said, adding that 97 people were injured, including 19 security men during the anniversary clashes.

The clashes on Sunday came after loyalists of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, the country's first elected president, called for demonstrations against the government and president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who headed Morsi's removal as then army chief in 2013.

On Monday, at least 22 people were injured in a train blaze. The third carriage of the train was burnt while en route from Cairo to the delta city of Tanta, after unknown men threw Molotov inside, state-run Ahram website reported on its website.

Elsewhere in the coastal city of Alexandria, masked men have thrown Molotov cocktail on a tram and fled the scene, leaving several people injured, Ahram added.

The Interior Ministry announced that 130 supporters of the blacklisted Muslim Brotherhood, from which Morsi hails, were arrested during the anniversary clashes.

The bomb disposal team has managed to defuse eight bombs in Cairo, three of them outside the New Cairo Court.

Security had been tightened in Cairo and other cities during the anniversary, with armored vehicles sealing off roads, including those leading to Cairo's Tahrir Square, the epic center of the 2011 revolution.

Last year, more than 60 people were killed in demonstrations marking the revolution anniversary and in protest of the military ouster of Morsi in 2013.

In August 2013, nearly 1,000 Morsi's supporters have been killed in crackdown and thousands in prison, which raged the anger of the Islamists in retaliation. Hundreds of police and army men were killed in Islamist attacks following Morsi's ouster. Endit