Demonstrators face for the third consecutive day in Egypt

On Saturday morning at the headquarters of the Egyptian Ministry of the Interior in Cairo, in the third consecutive day of clashes after the death of 74 people after a soccer game in Port Said, northern Egypt, last Wednesday demonstrators and policemen faced.

The demonstrators threw stones at the security forces who responded with shots of pellets and tear-gas.

From Thursday the clashes caused the death of nine people, three in Cairo and six in Suez, port city in the channel of the same name, East of the capital, said medical sources.

Some of the victims died asphyxiated by the tear-gas.

Addition five people were injured in clashes in Alexandria, second city of the country, on the Mediterranean coast, said the governmental press.

realized 2.532 wounded. The demonstrators, among them u000amany fans of football clubs, demand the end of military power that governs Egypt since the fall for almost a year of President Hosni Mubarak.

The drama on Wednesday in Port Said, when the swollen-faced of Al Masri with the of to the Ahli, provoked nationwide demonstrations on Thursday degenerated into violent clashes with the police.

. The Supreme Council of the armed forces (CSFA), led by field marshal Hussein Tantaoui, accused his party of "foreign hands"and internal disorders.

The CSFA on Facebook issued a communiqué urging "all forces national and political of this great nation" to take a historic role and to "intervene to restore stability".

The protesters charged the CSFA responsibility of the 74 dead and hundreds of injured in Port Said last Wednesday caused by the consecutive confrontations the first defeat of the season of the famous club u000aCairo to the Ahly's front premises of Al Masry.

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