Tahrir Square yesterday evening

Outcome of the ninth night of passion rises to 900 wounded and 8 dead .. Mubarak and supporters clash with the demonstrators with sticks, stones and Molotov cocktails

Saw Tahrir Square yesterday evening, Wednesday, the night of the worst nights after the passage of 8 days since the beginning of the "passion", which resulted in clashes which erupted between the protesters supporters of President Mubarak and his opponents, on the arrival of the number of injured in clashes Tahrir Square to 900 injured, while for Mortality was the Minister of Health, Dr. Ahmed Sameh Farid, that being the work of a comprehensive inventory of them, since the last numbers that have been reached yesterday evening 8 deaths.

 

The minister pointed out in a special statement for the "seventh day" that all patients discharged from hospital after reviewing the state of health, stressing that it was left only 86 patients in the hospitals and their injuries ranging from first degree to second overall in the clashes because of the direct and mud stones.

 

The confrontations began with dark and insisted demonstrators from both sides non-compliance with hours of the curfew set by the armed forces, has displaced thousands of supporters of President Mubarak to Al-Tahrir Square coming from the field of Mustafa Mahmoud engineers and Helwan, Shubra, while the presence of protesters, demanding the president step down in the middle of the field, and saw clashes between the two sides with sticks and throwing stones.

 

Despite attempts by some demonstrators separation between the two sides, through the radio internal and loudspeakers, as well as securing the entrances in the field of editing the 12 collected pieces of iron fences, but the rioters were able to Molotov cocktails and fire balls, which resulted in many casualties and wounded.

 

People's Committees has also arrested many of the supporters of the current system, supporters of the National Party and the rioters and handed over to the army, and formed the medical teams to rescue the wounded who were killed in the field ambulances could not enumerate.

 

With the passage of hours of the night succeeded demonstrators opposed to President Mubarak in control of the situation in all directions and excellence on the rioters, who infiltrated the center of demonstrations in his support, especially in front of the editing on the one hand the Egyptian Museum and a Champollion street, but the rest of them did not surrender and continued to the top of October Bridge throwing Molotov cocktails and fireballs and shoot in the air, which resulted in a charge to ignite the house of the Egyptian Museum, next to many of the fires at the gate of the museum directly, and wounding four different injuries, all in the legs and shoulder.

 

 

And received a field hospital set up by the Commission for Relief of the Arab Doctors Union next to the Egyptian Museum in the road leading to Abdel Moneim Riyad Square, which includes paramedics and volunteer doctors from the Institute of heart, a lot of injuries on both sides, were converted dozens of cases to the hospital enlightening in terms of the museum.

 

For its part, the army did not intervene in the clashes, but only to take new positions tanks to secure the demonstrators at the entrance of liberalization in terms of Qasr al-Nil.