State of Emgerency Declared in Egypt As 278 People are Shot Dead

 

Riot police and army personnel take up position during clashes with members of the Muslim Brotherhood and supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi in Cairo.
Egyptian security forces crushed a protest camp of thousands of supporters of the deposed president today, shooting dead hundreds of people in the bloodiest day in decades in the Arab world's biggest country.

The health ministry said 235 civilians were killed, both in Cairo and in clashes that broke out elsewhere in the country, raising the total number of dead to 278. The number of injured was more than 2000. Deposed President Mohamed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood described the situation as a "massacre".
Egypt's interior minister said 43 policemen had been killed in clashes with the protesters.
While dead bodies wrapped in carpets were carried to a makeshift morgue near the Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque, the army-backed rulers declared a one-month state of emergency, restoring to the military the unfettered power it wielded for decades before a pro-democracy uprising in 2011.