CAIRO // At least 49 people have been killed in 24 hours of clashes that erupted on Saturday during rival rallies marking the anniversary of Egypt’s 2011 revolt.
In addition, 247 people were injured, the health ministry said today.
The interior ministry said that 1,079 people had been arrested during the demonstrations that came three years after the start of the uprising that forced long-serving autocrat Hosni Mubarak to quit.
The clashes broke out between protesters who support the former Islamist president Mohammed Morsi and those backing the military, which ousted him in July after a single turbulent year in power.
* Agence France-Presse