At least seven dead and over 600 injured are the toll from the clashes between supporters and opponents of Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, according to medical and security sources in the North African country. Five victims were registered in Assiut, Beni Suef and Fayoum, south of Cairo; two in the assault on the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters.
After a day of demonstrations across Egypt against the president, the headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood, Morsi's party, was set on fire in Cairo on Sunday evening by hundreds of people who threw petrol bombs, and two people - including a boy aged 26, shot in the head – were killed. Morsi himself barricaded himself in the headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood.
“If we change someone elected according to constitutional legitimacy, there will be someone who will also oppose the new president and a week or a month later they will also ask him to resign,” the first president of the Muslim Brotherhood told the Guardian.
