For over six months, supporters of Egyptian President Morsi has set up camp within different parts of the Egyptian capital. The raids in these two camps begun early morning, reports say.
Morsi is the first president to be democratically elected after last year's popular protest against Mubarak. But in just a year into the new president's term, a huge number of Egyptians wanted the man out too. According to reports, they did not like how the Western-educated Morsi aligns with the principles of the Muslim Brotherhood and have wanted to align the brotherhood's agenda to the country's laws.
The Egyptian military, who still has a lot of influence in the Egyptian government, installed Mansour as the country's interim president after taking power from the Muslim Brotherhood-supported Morsi. Morsi is accused of collaborating with rebel group Hamas to carry out acts of terrorism including attacks on law enforcement buildings in Egypt as well as storming prisons. Morsi hasn't made a public appearance after being ousted.
Many of the protesters cried and wailed while others were carried on stretchers to be sent to a clinic nearby. While Morsi's supporters claim they are unarmed, many of these supporters besieged places of worship like Saint George's Church located outside of the city. The Interior Ministry told reporters that supporters of the brotherhood also attacked police stations around the country in an effort to cause chaos in the countryside.
The Interior Ministry told international media that over 200 people were arrested. These people had weapons and ammunition on them, sources say. Civilians were whisking away their children from the chaos -some with gas masks too to protect themselves from plumes of smoke from the fires around them. While the government forces say they never used gunfire against the protesters, the Muslim Brotherhood told the media that the Egyptian security forces threw Molotov cocktails in the makeshift camps.
The Muslim Brotherhood said police were throwing Molotov cocktails at the clinics inside the camps.
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