Egyptian security forces in the northern city of Tanta Six supporters of ousted Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi were shot dead on Friday when a pro-Morsi rally in the canal city of Ismailia came under fire. Elsewhere, eight protesters were killed in the port city of Damietta, north of Cairo, medical sources told Reuters.
Pro-Morsi demonstrators staged a fresh wave of rallies in several Egyptian cities to protest Wednesday\'s violent dispersal of their two main protests sites in Cairo and Giza.
\"Our revolution is peaceful; we will continue to mobilise without violence or sabotage,\" the National Alliance for the Defence of Legitimacy, a coalition of largely Islamist parties and figures supportive of Morsi, said in a statement early Friday.
In the northern city of Tanta, Egyptian security forces fired birdshot and tear gas to block Morsi supporters from reaching a government building.
In the second city of Alexandria, Muslim Brotherhood activists started gathering in the central square ahead of planned protests after Friday prayers.
Earlier on Friday morning, armed assailants attacked the headquarters of the Judges Club of Alexandria and set fire to the garden outside the building.
According to al-Ahram, a drive-by shooting occurred when a four-wheel-drive car passed by the club and opened fire at the gate. The assailants threw petrol bombs, setting the garden, including three parked cars on fire.
Additional source: AA