Egypt police injure several in Giza funeral

Several people have been injured near the capital Cairo as Egyptian security forces attacked protesters mourning for a student killed last week.

The incident took place in Giza on Friday during a funeral for the Cairo University student who died from wounds he had sustained during a police attack at the campus.

Clashes between security forces and demonstrators also broke out across several districts in Giza and Cairo on Friday, according to Egypt’s state-owned al-Ahram news website.

The incident marks the latest in the ongoing crackdown on protesters by the Egyptian authorities.

The crackdown has been in place since the army toppled the country’s first democratically-elected president, Mohamed Morsi, on July 3, 2013.

Anti-government demonstrators have been holding rallies almost on a daily basis, demanding that Morsi be reinstated as his ouster was a military coup.

Egypt’s military-backed rulers have tightened security laws and targeted the supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Figures show Egypt’s military-backed government has jailed nearly 16,000 people over the past few months.

Rights groups say at least 1,400 people have been killed in the political violence since the ouster of Morsi, “most of them due to excessive force used by security forces.”