Outbreaks of violence in Cairo, Alexandria and other cities marked the anniversary of the 2011 uprising in Egypt that ousted former President Hosni Mubarak. Photo: AP

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THIS is the moment a fellow protester helped a dying mother gunned down by police in Cairo for marching in support of democracy.

Shaima al-Sabbagh, who friends said was 34 and the mother of a five-year-old boy, died of birdshot wounds taking part in protests to mark the fourth anniversary of Egypt’s 2011 uprising.

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Videos posted online show her moments before her death, standing with fellow members of the Socialist Popular Alliance Party chanting and holding placards saying: “bread, freedom and social justice,” the Mirror reported.

At least 10 protesters and a policeman have been killed in unrest linked to the anniversary.

Nine pro-Islamist protesters were killed in clashes in the north Cairo neighbourhoods of Matareya and Ain Shams, and another in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, a health ministry official told AFP.

The interior ministry said protesters shot dead a police conscript in the north Cairo clashes.

In central Cairo, police fired shotguns and tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters who tried to march on Tahrir Square, the epicentre of the early 2011 revolt that ousted veteran autocrat Hosni Mubarak.

Hours earlier, two militants mistakenly blew up themselves as they tried to sabotage an electricity tower in the Nile Delta, and a policeman was wounded in a small bomb blast in the capital.

Jihadist group Ajnad Misr, or Soldiers of Egypt, claimed responsibility for the bomb blast.

Authorities had tightened security in Cairo and other cities after Islamists called for protests against the government of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the former army chief who ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in 2013.

.@AbD_ElrhMaN0 who's in Matariya now says #Jan25 protesters there are attempting to form some kind of sit-in. #Egypt pic.twitter.com/xqW1I8PUYW — Fatima Said (@fattysaid) January 25, 2015

Night protests continue #Egypt undeterred by the ever increasing death toll. At least 15 have been killed anv. #Jan25 pic.twitter.com/hHlfQXLvzA — Anonymous (@YourAnonGlobal) January 25, 2015

Ms al-Sabbagh was killed on Saturday in clashes with police during a rare leftwing protest in central Cairo.

Fellow protesters said she was hit by birdshot when police fired to disperse the march. Prosecutors have launched a probe into her death. On Sunday hundreds paid tribute to her at a funeral in Alexandria.

An 18-year-old female protester was also killed on Friday in clashes in Alexandria.

Police warned they would “decisively” confront protests on Sunday. Morsi’s supporters often hold small rallies that police quickly disperse.

Sporadic protests were reported in Cairo, with security officials saying that supporters of Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood torched a police post in the capital.

The capital’s streets were largely deserted, although a few Sisi supporters gathered outside Tahrir Square waving Egyptian flags and chanting “Long Live Egypt!” Plainclothes police were checking identity cards and stopping people from heading to the square.

Security was beefed up elsewhere in Cairo, with machinegun-wielding police deployed on key streets.

“This is the funeral of the (2011) revolution” Mamdouh Hamza, a prominent figure from the anti-Mubarak uprising, told an AFP correspondent in central Cairo.