Egypt's Brotherhood alleges Cairo massacre: 34 dead, 500 injured

[The Straight Story]

Egypt's Brotherhood alleges Cairo massacre
Muslim Brotherhood says 34 of its supporters killed in shooting during dawn prayers.

A deadly shooting at the site of a sit-in by Muslim Brotherhood supporters in Cairo, demanding the reinstatement of outsted President Mohamed Morsi, have left many people dead.

Egypt medical sources said 15 had been killed, but a Brotherhood spokesman said 34 of its supporters were killed in the shootings.

Mohamed Mohamed Ibrahim El-Beltagy, a Brotherhood MP, described the incident during the early hours of Monday as a "massacre" during dawn prayers, after police had stormed the site.

About 500 people were also reportedly injured.

A doctor told Al Jazeera that "majority of injured had gunshot wounds to the head".

The Brotherhood said the dead and injured have been taken to a makeshift hospital in Nasr City, a neighbourhood in the Egyptian capital.

The military said a "terrorist group" had tried to storm the Republican Guard facility. It also said that an officer had been killed.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/07/20137821320932698.html

[MADem]

1. And some of the dead were thrown off the roof by a crew of MB thugs. nt

[Comrade Grumpy]

4. This is a different incident.

[leveymg]

2. This is only going to escalate, no matter how much the MSM wants to ignore it.

Israel could find itself surrounded by states in civil war on all sides. How it's going to avoid any spillover or blowback, I just don't know.

[Warpy]

3. I think so, too. The religious nuts aren't going to give up

and neither will the military, zealots in their own right.

The Egyptian people will get caught in the crossfire, as usual.

Sickening.