Two policemen were wounded on Tuesday in clashes between students who “belong to the Muslim Brotherhood” and the security forces inside Alexandria University, said an Interior Ministry statement. Meanwhile, the Muslim Brotherhood’s social media accounts reported that a second-year engineering student had also been killed during the clashes. Omar Sherif reportedly suffered gun shot wounds though the Ministry of Interior denies that live ammunition was used. Security forces arrested 37 students during the clashes, added the Ministry. The ministry said in a statement that around 250 students gathered on campus and began vandalising one of the gates and pelting security personnel outside the university with rocks. The violence left four students injured. They include a female student who broke her leg as she fell down the stairs while trying to flee the scene of violence. Other injuries included suffocation from the teargas used by security forces to disperse the protest as well as a fractured skull, said the University of Alexandria’s Administrative Security Director Hani al-Kafoury. The university’s president ordered the entrance of security forces into campus to disperse the student protests. The Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression…
Student killed during violent clashes at Alexandria University
October 15, 2014
