Just outside the Egyptian Presidential palace in Cairo, the Egyptian Army has deployed around six tanks ablaze between supporters and opponents of first Islamist President Mohamed Morsi.
As per reports, violent clashes have erupted between thousands of Morsi supporters Muslim Brotherhood and opposition activists who had been staging a sit-in outside a presidential building in the Cairo suburb of Heliopolis, protesting against Morsi.
Into the early hours of the morning, clashes moved violent, both groups threw stones and petrol bombs in clashes, killed five people and more than 5 hundreds wounded
Beside tanks, 9 armoured troops vehicles led to Presidential Guard and Republican Guard, whose duties include guarding the presidency and his palaces, have been deployed outside the complex.
Reports are that the angry opponents who are in oppose to a draft Constitution passed by the assembly last week, torched the offices of the powerful Muslim Brotherhood in the Mediterranean port city of Ismailiya and in Suez.
Since Morsi’s decree for sweeping himself power, several clashes have been erupted, accusing him for creating a new autocracy as Egypt’s first president after ending a popular uprising Hosni Mubarak’s regime in February, 2011.
