7 dead, hundreds injured in Egypt

Doctors: at least 5 shot in the chest Cairo - Arabstoday Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi appealed for calm after seven people died in clashes between police and protesters Friday, the second anniversary of the revolt that toppled Hosni Mubarak. At least seven people died in Friday's anti-government protests, according to the health ministry, six in Suez and one in Ismailiya, in the northeast, while 456 people had been injured in the unrest. The interior ministry said 95 of its officers had been injured. Doctors at Suez Hospital told AFP at least five people had been shot in the chest and stomach after fierce clashes broke out between protesters and police in the canal city. In Egypt's second city Alexandria, as demonstrators clashed with the security forces, some protesters set fire to tyres, witnesses said."The smoke is black, there is a lot of gas. There are people on the ground because they can't breathe," one of the protesters, who gave his name only as Rasha, told AFP. The opposition had called for mass protests under the same slogan that brought Egypt to its feet in 2011: "Bread, freedom, social justice." Source: Agencies