ALEXANDRIA
At least 90 people have been killed and 492 arrested in the northern city of Alexandria since the ouster of elected President Mohamed Morsi, a human rights center has said.
The Al-Shehab Center for Human Rights said in a statement that 90 people have lost their lives in the coastal city since July 3, when the army deposed Morsi after mass protests against him.
The single biggest number of fatalities occurred on August 16, when 46 were killed in the city, according to the center.
The center, which is close to the Muslim Brotherhood, also noted that 492 people have been arrested since mid-June.
It added that 18 people were arrested on June 15, two weeks before the June 30 protests that led to Morsi's overthrow.
The highest number of detainees was reported on August 16, when 157 people were arrested, two days after the dispersal of two pro-Morsi protest camps in Cairo.
Egyptian security forces violently dismantled two sit-ins staged by Morsi supporters in Cairo and Giza, leaving hundreds of people dead.
Egypt has declared a state of emergency after hundreds of people were killed in violence that engulfed the country since the protest dispersal.
The state of emergency allows security forces to arrest citizens without charge and carry out searches of homes and vehicles without judicial permission.
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