After Egypt soccer riot kills 74, new clashes in Cairo.
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AFP - Egyptian protesters clashed with police for a second straight day on Friday as anger against the ruling military boiled over amid fury at the deaths of 74 people in football-related violence.
Marchers descended on parliament from mosques across Cairo to demand that the generals cede power immediately after a night of demonstrations in major cities across Egypt left at least two people dead.
In a sign of the growing threat the political turmoil poses to Egypt’s economy, two female American tourists and their Egyptian tour guide were kidnapped on the road from the historic St Catherine’s monastery in the Sinai peninsula, security officials said.
In the capital, riot police outside the interior ministry building fired tear gas at demonstrators, who hurled rocks back, after a night of confrontations left hundreds injured, an AFP correspondent reported.
The ministry said the injury toll since Thursday had reached 1,482 while one pro-democracy group, the Coalition of Maspero Youth, said one of its members had lost an eye during the clashes.
A soldier injured outside the ministry building on Thursday died in hospital on Friday, the state MENA news agency reported.
Masked protesters cut through barbed wire and lit fires on Mansur Street which leads to the ministry, as rocks flew overhead in all directions, the AFP correspondent said.
In nearby Tahrir Square – nerve centre of the mass rallies that forced Hosni Mubarak from power last February – thousands gathered chanting slogans against the military council that took power when the veteran president quit.
Marchers set off from mosques across the capital after noon prayers headed to parliament, a few blocks away.
In the canal city of Suez, where two demonstrators were killed late on Thursday, police fired birdshot and tear gas to disperse angry protesters, an AFP reporter said.


















































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