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| Pro-Morsi protest camps in Cairo being cleared | |
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| Supporters of Egypt's deposed President Mohammed Morsi say security forces have begun an operation to clear two protest camps in the capital, Cairo. | Supporters of Egypt's deposed President Mohammed Morsi say security forces have begun an operation to clear two protest camps in the capital, Cairo. |
| Unconfirmed reports say at least five people have been killed. | |
| The BBC's James Reynolds in Cairo says an armoured bulldozer is heading towards the sit-in outside the Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque, in the east of the city. | |
| Police have also cut off side streets and there have been bursts of gunfire. | Police have also cut off side streets and there have been bursts of gunfire. |
| Muslim Brotherhood TV, which is allied to the ousted president, called for people to send cars to the sit-ins to take casualties to hospital. | |
| Helicopters can be seen circling overhead with announcements being made on loudspeakers. | |
| Protesters have been camped outside the mosque, and at Nahda Square to the west, for the past six weeks. | Protesters have been camped outside the mosque, and at Nahda Square to the west, for the past six weeks. |
| They have been demanding the reinstatement of Mr Morsi, who was deposed by the military on 3 July following mass opposition protests. | |
| More than 250 people have been killed in clashes since then. | |
| On Tuesday, one person was killed in a confrontation between supporters and opponents of Mr Morsi in Giza after people marched from Nahda Square to a nearby complex of government buildings to protest against the appointment of several military officers as provincial governors. |