Clashes outside US embassy in Cairo leave 200 injured

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Source: News Track India

Cairo, Sep 14 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Some 200 people were injured in clashes outside the US embassy located in the Egyptian capital, said an official related to ambulance service Thursday.

"Eight people were hospitalised and the others were given first aid at the scene," Ahmad Al-Ansari, deputy head of Cairo's ambulance service, further told reporters.

Among the total injured were 24 security personnel, including six officers and 18 soldiers, Xinhua reported.

Riot police fired warning shots and tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters who were throwing stones and "Molotov cocktails" also known as a petrol bomb ...

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1. I will be in Cairo in 62 days. Hope things are better.

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2. Thank you, christian fundamentalist extremists in the US, for pouring gasoline on

what you knew to be a still-smouldering fire.