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February 4th, 2012

Via: Reuters:

Rock-throwing protesters fought riot police through clouds of teargas to within metres of Egypt’s Interior Ministry on a second day of clashes triggered by the deaths of 74 people in the country’s worst soccer disaster.

A demonstrator and an army officer were reported dead in Cairo and in the city of Suez two people were killed as police used live rounds to hold back crowds trying to break into a police station and fought in front of the state security headquarters, witnesses and the ambulance authority said.

Most of those killed in the Port Said football stadium on Wednesday night were crushed in a stampede and the government declared three days of mourning, but protesters hold the military-led authorities responsible.

It was country’s deadliest incident since an uprising ousted Hosni Mubarak almost a year ago and it gave fresh impetus to regular street protests against Egypt’s ruling generals.

“We will stay until we get our rights. Did you see what happened in Port Said?” said 22-year-old Abu Hanafy, who arrived from work on Thursday evening and decided to join the protest.

The ministry in Cairo, an object of hatred for football fans who say lax policing was to blame for the stadium disaster, has been hemmed in by the street battles since Thursday.

Thousands were still battling riot police there and more protesters were expected to gather in the centre of the capital for a “Friday of Anger” declared by 28 youth activist groups and political parties.

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