Egypt Opposition Rejects Call to End Protests After Deadly Clash
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Egypt’s opposition ignored a call by the premier to keep protesters off the streets yesterday, saying it would hold more rallies and won’t join a national dialogue amid the kind of violence that saw a man killed two days ago.
Demonstrators hurled Molotov cocktails and rocks at the walls of President Mohamed Mursi’s palace late into the night of Feb. 1, a day after the opposition and Islamists signed an accord to denounce violence. Security forces fired tear gas and water cannons, and a 23-year-old man was killed, according to the Health Ministry. State-run Ahram Online said he died of gunshot wounds to the neck and chest.