CAIRO (Reuters) - Thousands of Egyptian students to end the rule of President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year-old and three people were killed in the unprecedented protests across the country on Tuesday, inspired by the revolution that overthrew President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
Security sources said that police recruits were killed in clashes between police and protesters in central Cairo, killing two people and in the city of Suez in the east of the country. They said dozens were injured in demonstrations across the country, called by activists across the Internet.
A security source said that 36 policemen were injured, "citing the recruiter Ahmed Aziz from the Central Security Forces of his head injury as a result of bombardment with stones."
The protesters chanted in Cairo, "Down with Mubarak." Police used tear gas canisters and water cannon while protesters hurled bottles and stones.
Police beat some protesters with sticks strongly. And showed other protesters rarely resilient in the face of a huge security operation and chased some members of the police in the side streets. Showed a Reuters television footage of a policeman join the demonstrators.
In Alexandria, the heart of the protesters a police vehicle and tore up a picture of Mubarak (82 years) and his son Gamal, who many Egyptians believe that he is being groomed to take over the job when his father steps down. Both deny it.
In Cairo, protesters chanted, who went out in response to the call via the Internet, "O beauty of your father say to all the people Beckerhok."
Egyptians are suffering from the same problems that prompted the Tunisian to the streets, such as high food prices and poverty, unemployment and autocracy, which inhibits the popular protests quickly and brutally mostly. Protesters chanted "Tunisia, Tunisia .." during the demonstrations.
And called on the United States, a close ally of Egypt and the major donor of aid of all parties to exercise restraint to avoid violence.
She said U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton "" Our estimate is that the Egyptian government is stable and looking for ways to respond to the needs of the Egyptian people and its legitimate interests. "
Witnesses said that the protests in Cairo and other cities may have attracted 20 thousand people or more. A statement from the Interior Ministry said more than ten thousand people gathered in Tahrir Square in central Cairo alone, but did not give an estimate for the total of demonstrators in the rest of the places.
It is difficult to give an accurate estimate because of widespread protests and the state media do not give only a brief reference to such events.
Protest The Egyptian usually a few hundred people. The events on Tuesday, gaining unprecedented strength since Mubarak took office in 1981 due to the large numbers and the fact that the protests in many cities coordinated manner unprecedented.
Said analyst Nabil Abdel-Fattah, that what happens on Tuesday, a warning is important for the system. He added it is an extension of the pent-up frustration and protests continued. He said that the new order also said that there are new generations are using new tools.
He added that the protest could gain momentum unless the state is moving quickly to deal with the demands of reform.
With the disintegration of most of the official opposition groups and their vulnerability to Internet activists led the calls for protests Tuesday which was described as "Day of Rage" against poverty and oppression.
Show and Internet activists by attracting protesters out in large numbers to their calls for political change can be up to a wide audience. So far, the expression for most of the anger is limited to web pages.
With the entry of the night mingled with police and protesters in the field of editing and sharing some food. Some of the protesters did not show a sign to leave during the night.
Some of the invitations were issued through the internet for more protests in coming days.
Said Ibrahim (33 years) in Mahalla al-Kubra, which saw riots in 2008 due to lack of subsidized bread and high prices "We gathered here to demand our rights. We can not live. All prices expensive and there is unemployment. We want a reduction in prices. The government caused our suffering."
And other demonstrations took place in Ismailia and Suez in the east of the country and in other cities in the Nile Delta, such as Mansoura, Tanta. Protesters also gathered in the northern Sinai.
The protesters chanted in Ismailia, "O Freedom Fink Fink." In Alexandria, chanted "revolution revolution uniforms (such as) the volcano against Mubarak cowardly."
With the outbreak of clashes in Cairo, some protesters chanted "peaceful .. peaceful." They called on the demonstrators not to throw something at the police or property.
A security source said 15 people were arrested in Cairo. A group of lawyers that about 85 people were arrested across Egypt. Another source said that two police officers were wounded in the Suez protesters with stones.
In North Sinai, witnesses and security sources said dozens of protesters set fire to tires and blocked the coastal road to Rafah on the border with the Gaza Strip and called for the release of prisoners. The area has seen tensions between the Bedouins and police.
And gave a statement to the Ministry of Interior on the Brotherhood, responsible for leading the protests and said that "despite the approach archaeological passed by the instigators of the rally ... the pretext of the escalation of their demands and in the forefront of the Brotherhood and so-called lateral April 6 and adequacy as well as the National Assembly of the change was to allow them to organize the vigil ".
He added, "has the police force since the beginning of this move at about eleven am to secure those stances, and the lack of exposure."
The statement called for "the need to end these communities in order to avoid Tdaiha in breach of public security."
Analysts had predicted that the authorities take a tolerant attitude, fearing the wrath of the kind that prompted the Tunisian to weeks of unrest before the overthrow of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who spent 23 years in power.
Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia. Shouted some protesters in Cairo, "O, O Mubarak Mubarak in Saudi Arabia .. wait."
And suffer the opposition parties registered in Egypt's weakness and disintegration. He has not been banned Muslim Brotherhood, which has the largest network is popular in Egypt calls for its members to participate in the demonstrations but said that some people will take part personally.
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