Four dead in Mansoura clashes

Four people are known to have died in overnight clashes between anti-government demonstrators and police in Mansoura in northern Egypt.

Forty other people received injuries.

The demonstrators were hurling rocks and Molotov cocktails at the building of the city government. Police tried to beat off the assault with tear gas.

Northern Egyptian cities including Mansoura and Port Said are into a sixth day of mass protests against the government’s Islamization policy.