(AA) – Six supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi, including one woman, were killed on Friday when their rally in the canal city of Ismailia came under fire.
"We have six people, including a woman, shot with live ammunition," Ahmed al-Labban, director of a makeshift mobile field hospital, told Anadolu Agency.
"Four of them were dead on arrival and the other two are clinically dead," he added.
Twenty-two others were injured in the shooting.
Pro-Morsi demonstrators are staging a fresh wave of rallies in several Egyptian cities today to protest Wednesday's violent dispersal of their two main protests sites in Cairo and Giza.
"Our revolution is peaceful; we will continue to mobilize without violence or sabotage," the National Alliance for the Defense of Legitimacy, a pro-Morsi coalition of largely Islamist parties and figures, said in a statement early Friday.
Egypt has been in a state of turmoil since security forces on Wednesday violently dispersed two major protest camps set up by Morsi supporters in Cairo's Rabaa al-Adawiya Square and Giza's Nahda Square.
The Health Ministry has said that at least 638 people had been killed in nationwide violence since Wednesday, including 288 in Rabaa and 87 in Nahda.
However, the official death toll remains far below that given by the pro-Morsi alliance, which has put the number of deaths from the Rabaa sit-in alone at some 2,600.
