A total of 590 people have been injured, according to the Deputy Minister of health. Demonstrators throw stones at the police, who in turn responds with the use of tear gas. The traffic is cut off, except for ambulances. At least 43 injured in clashes between protesters and police in Tahrir square. Hundreds of protesters face riot agents of the Egyptian police in the vicinity of the Tahrir square, epicenter of protests that ended with the regime of Hosni Mubarak Wednesday. At the moment, a total of 590 people have been injured, as reported by the Deputy Minister of health, Adel Adawi. Adawi explained that 75 of the injured were transferred to nine hospitals, while others were treated in ambulances and doctors stationed in places of incidents. Protesters throw stones to the police, which in turn respond with the use of tear gas, while other dozens of people have gathered in Cairo square to protest.
The traffic is cut in these moments, and the only vehicles accessing the site are ambulances coming to remove the wounded. These disturbances are the continuation of incidents that were experienced in this same area Tuesday night, which caused at least 43 wounded, according to medical sources told the official Mena Agency. The nearby streets to Tahrir square show the vivid pitched battle scenario and that is prolonged in these moments, with calcined containers, soil full of stones and paving stones and several of the demonstrators wearing masks by tear gas. The arrests sparked demonstrations incidents flared up on Tuesday when dozens of people tried to attack the Ministry of the Interior, in protest at the detention of seven people accused of having caused disturbances in front of a theatre where a ceremony for the families of the victims of the revolution was celebrated. During this ceremony, around 150 people they tried to enter the theatre to the balloon saying that they were relatives of the victims, but the entrance was forbidden them, the newspaper reported Wednesday governmental Al Ahram, which indicated that those present attacked the theater with stones and destroyed the door of the premises. After these events, numerous protesters from different points of the city approached the Tahrir square, where they clashed with police. This encouraged thousands of young people to move to the square to express their solidarity with the protesters attacked by police, according to witnesses. Source of the news: nearly 600 wounded in clashes on Tahrir square between policemen and demonstrators