August 15, 2013 03:08 pm | Updated November 16, 2021 09:30 pm IST - Cairo
At least 421 people were killed in Egypt on Wednesday in violence linked to the police’s break-up of two major protest camps in Cairo set up by supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsy, the Health Ministry said.
Spokesman Mohammed Fatallah added that a total of 294 people were killed in Rabaa al-Adawiya in north-eastern Cairo and al-Nahda Square south of the capital during the crackdown on the campers.
The rest of the deaths occurred in other areas of the country.
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