An unknown number of pro-Morsi protesters were killed in Egypt’s capital as Egyptian Security Forces undertook a planned operation to clear Morsi supporters from two sit-in demonstrations in Cairo where they have camped for over one month.
An Egyptian man walks between lines of bodies wrapped in shrouds at a makeshift morgue in Cairo. (Mahmoud Khaled, AFP/Getty Images)
Egyptians mourn at a mosque in Cairo where lines of bodies wrapped in shrouds are laid out following a crackdown on the protest camps of supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi the previous day. (Mahmoud Khaled, AFP/Getty Images)
Residents walk through debris and rubble inside the burnt down mosque of Rabaa al-Adawiya in Cairo, Egypt. Islamists vowed to rally later in the day in support of deposed president Mohamed Morsi despite a violent crackdown that sparked Egypt’s worst day of violence for decades, with over 500 people killed. (Khaled Desouki, AFP/Getty Images)
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Egyptians search through the debris at Rabaa al-Adawiya square in Cairo following a crackdown on the protest camps of supporters of the Egypt’s ousted Islamist leader Mohamed Morsi the previous day. (Mahmoud Khaled, AFP/Getty Images)
Egyptian Muslim brotherhood supporter of Egypt’s ousted president Mohamed Morsi overturn a police vehicle during clashes with riot police at Cairo’s Mustafa Mahmoud Square after security forces dispersed supporters of Morsi/ (AFP/Getty Images)
Supporters of Egypt’s ousted president Mohamed Morsi and members of the Muslim Brotherhood run from tear gas smoke shot by police to disperse a pro-Morsi camp in Cairo. (Khaled Desouki, AFP/Getty Images)
An Egyptian woman tries to stop a military bulldozer from hurting a wounded youth during clashes that broke out as Egyptian security forces moved in to disperse supporters of Egypt’s deposed president Mohamed Morsi in a huge protest camp near Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque in eastern Cairo. (Mohammad Abdel Moneim, AFP/Getty Images)
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A man grieves as he looks at one of many bodies laid out in a makeshift morgue after Egyptian security forces stormed two huge protest camps at the Rabaa al-Adawiya and Al-Nahda squares where supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi were camped. (Mosaab El-Shamy, AFP/Getty Images)