CAIRO (AA) – The Egyptian prosecution has ordered the detention of 42 people from Kerdasa arrested during a recent crackdown on the Giza province town, a judicial source told Anadolu Agency Sunday.
This brings the number of Kerdasa people issued with arrest warrants to 123, the source said.
On Thursday, Egyptian army and police forces stormed the Kerdasa with the stated aim of arresting suspects believed to be involved in an attack on a local police station last month, which left at least 11 police personnel dead.
The attack on the police station came shortly after security forces violently dispersed two major sit-ins staged by supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi in Rabaa al-Adawiya, eastern Cairo, and Giza's Nahda Squda, during which hundreds of protesters were killed.
The prosecution charged 33 suspects with murder, involvement in acts of terror, illegal possession of weapons and defiling dead bodies.
Other faces charges of incitement to violence and rioting.
The source said most of the Kerdasa detainees denied involvement in the attack on the police station.
Only one woman, identified as Somaia Shanan, reportedly admitted she hit the body of a police officer killed during the attack, a scene that was caught on video.
Shanan reportedly linked her act to the death of a relative during the dispersal of Rabaa sit-in.
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