Egypt protests: Bloodshed as Pro-Morsi camps cleared
CAIRO. August 14. KAZINFORM Egyptian security forces have stormed two protest camps occupied by supporters of deposed president Mohammed Morsi in Cairo, with reports of many killed.
Witnesses said they saw at least 40 bodies, but the Muslim Brotherhood says hundreds died.
Armoured bulldozers moved deep into the main camp outside the eastern Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque.
Officials say the other protest camp, at Nahda Square, has also been cleared.
Graphic accounts of bloodshed emerged from the protest camps as reporters described wounded protesters being treated alongside the dead in makeshift field hospitals, Kazinform has learnt from BBC News.
The 17-year-old daughter of leading Muslim Brotherhood figure Mohamed el-Beltagy was among the dead. Asmaa al-Beltagy was shot in the back and chest, her brother said.
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