UK Daily Mail
- Total blackout on internet access and text messaging services disrupted
- Six protesters so far killed in violent clashes with police
- Biggest protests yet expected to take place after morning prayers
- Opposition group leaders arrested in series of raids overnight
Mohamed Atef, 22, died instantly from a shot to the head as he demonstrated in the town of Sheikh Zoweid in northern Sinai. His friends rushed to his side and took him to get medical help but it was too late.
The shooting came as police fought protesters in Suez and Ismailia, two cities straddling the Suez Canal that separates Sinai from the rest of Egypt.
Today thousands of anti-government protesters clashed with police in Cairo, who fired rubber bullets into the crowds and used tear gas and water cannons to disperse them.
It was a major escalation in what was already the biggest challenge to President Hosni Mubarak's 30 year-rule...
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