At least 85 people were killed and thousands injured Friday and Saturday in clashes between protesters and police in Egypt, bringing to 92 the number of dead in five days of protest against President Hosni Mubarak, according to medical sources .
On Friday, clashes between police and antigovernment demonstrators claimed 62 dead, including 35 in Cairo, according to information compiled from hospitals. Saturday, 23 dead – three in Cairo, three in Rafah, five Ismailiya and 12 in clashes between demonstrators and police at Beni Soueif, just south of Cair e-have been identified during clashes between police and protesters, according to these same sources.
These 85 deaths are in addition to seven other people killed in the first three days of protest, bringing the total dead to 92 since January 25.
Chanting “Mubarak leave” hundreds of people gathered Saturday in front of the Egyptian Embassy in Paris to demand the departure of the Egyptian president in power for 30 years. The same cry was heard on the streets of Toronto this afternoon as hundreds of protesters and their supporters took over Dundas Square.
“Tunisia, Egypt: long live the revolution”, “Mubarak you’re deaf,” “Power to the people” could be read on the banners waved by the people gathered outside different cities around the world.
“He announced the fall of the government but it does not change anything because we do not want to be him to begin with,” said one protester, furious, about the cabinet reshuffle announced Friday night by Hosni Mubarak.