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At least six people were killed after violence broke out on Monday afternoon between police and protesters near the security headquarters in Egypt\u2019s canal city of Port Said.
Footage from the scene showed the security building torched along with protesters throwing petrol bombs at police under clouds of tear gas.
The blaze sent plumes of smoke into the air while clashes continued in the streets surrounding the building.<\/p>\n
Rescue services could not reach the area, witnesses told AFP, as anger mounted in the city where a campaign of civil disobedience entered its third week. <\/p>\n
The interior ministry said in a statement that unknown assailants had randomly attacked police and army personnel in the city \u201cwith the aim of creating sedition and divisions\u201d between them, following unconfirmed reports the army had fired on policemen. <\/p>\n
It urged residents of Port Said \u201cto stay away from groupings near government buildings.\u201d<\/p>\n
A few kilometers near, protesters were also hurling stones at the Governorate\u2019s building guarded by soldiers. Two soldiers were killed following Monday\u2019s clashes, according to Al Arabiya\u2019s correspondent. <\/p>\n
An army official arrived on the site in attempt to calm down protesters, but Al Arabiya\u2019s correspondent said similar attempts failed earlier to ease tensions. <\/p>\n
Thousands took to the streets of Port Said on Monday for the funeral of three people killed in overnight clashes with police.<\/p>\n
The city has witnessed unrest since January when a court sentenced Port Said residents to death over football violence last year, triggering a series of protests and eventually a civil disobedience campaign.<\/p>\n
People demonstrated against the detention of dozens of people in connection with a soccer riot last year when 70 died.<\/p>\n
Police used tear gas to disperse a crowd that had gathered in front of a local government office. The Health Ministry said in a statement on Monday morning that 404 people had been injured.<\/p>\n
The Interior Ministry said in a statement that two of its personnel had died of bullet wounds to the neck and head.<\/p>\n
Egypt has been in political turmoil for the last two years since a popular uprising that ousted president Hosni Mubarak. <\/p>\n
The interior ministry said it decided to move prisoners from Port Said, starting with the 39 remaining defendants over the February 2012 football violence, because it wanted to avoid unrest.<\/p>\n
The court verdict, expected next Saturday, is for the 39 defendants in a case which resulted in death sentences in January for 21 other defendants, sparking clashes that killed at least 40 people.<\/p>\n
Residents of Port Said and other canal cities have long complained that Cairo marginalises them.<\/p>\n
Last year\u2019s football riot which killed 74 people, mostly supporters of a visiting Cairo team, exacerbated Port Said\u2019s isolation, residents of the city say.<\/p>\n
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