0Cairo: At least two people and a police man have been killed in a clash between police and protestors in Egypt as thousand of people took to the streets demanding an end to President Hosni Mubarak’s decades-long regime.
Two protesters were killed in clashes with security forces in the city of Suez and the police officer was killed in a demonstration in Cairo.
On Tuesday, the opposition called on political activists to hold nationwide demonstrations against the government.
The protesters were chanting anti-Mubarak slogans and demanding the president to leave the government as his government remained failed to end poverty, corruption and unemployment. Some have gathered outside the Supreme Court and the parliament building, calling for the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak.
In Cairo, the police fired tear gas and water canon to disperse the protesters. Over 30,000 police officers have been deployed to the city center to crack down on the demonstrators.
Demonstrations have also been held in Alexandria and other parts of the country.
Kamal El Helbawy, the former spokesman of the Muslim Brotherhood, a foreign TV that Tuesday’s demonstrations have been the largest and most significant in Egypt’s recent history.
Former Arab League ambassador to the United Nations Clovis Maksoud has said that the ongoing revolution in Tunisia is inspiring the people of the Arab world, who are tired of dictatorial regimes.
The revolution “is the prognosis by which many frustrated people in various countries — suffering dictatorship, poverty, and marginalization, are now being empowered,” Maksoud added.
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