Associated Press
CAIRO—The number of people killed in clashes with Egyptian security forces in the wake of a deadly soccer riot rose to 11 on Saturday, according to a field doctor and a security official, as demonstrators in Cairo kept up their calls for an end to military rule and retribution for those killed in the soccer game violence.
Several hundred people protested in Cairo on Saturday morning, demanding police reforms. Others chanted for the execution of Egypt’s military ruler, who has been accused of mismanaging the country’s transition to democracy. Clashes broke out later in the day, with protesters reporting that police fired new rounds of tear gas on crowds near the ministry.
The protesters accuse security forces of failing to prevent an attack and stampede after Wednesday’s soccer game in the Mediterranean city of Port Said that killed 74 people. It was Egypt’s deadliest soccer riot and the world’s worst soccer violence in 15 years.
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