MB member killed in attack on HQ

A member of the Muslim Brotherhood has been killed in an attack on the group’s headquarters in the Egyptian city of Zakazik.

According to a statement released by Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the MB’s political arm, on Thursday, the victim was shot dead in the attack carried out by opposition groups in the city situated in the eastern part of the Nile delta.

This comes after at least one person was killed and over 230 people injured in clashes between supporters and opponents of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi in the Nile Delta city of Mansura, some 120 kilometers north of the capital Cairo.

The clashes broke out on Wednesday when opponents of the president began throwing rubbish at his supporters who were holding a rally in the coastal city.

According to reports, the injured were transferred to Mansura International Hospital where hospital officials said two people were taken to the intensive care unit with live bullet wounds.

Meanwhile, troops have been deployed across Egyptian cities ahead of June 30 protests planned by the opposition to demand the president resign.

Several political groups say the government is dominated by Muslim Brotherhood. The opposition also accuses Morsi of deviating from the 2011 revolution that toppled the Western-backed regime of Hosni Mubarak.

Morsi’s supporters, however, say the president is cleansing Egyptian institutions of corruption. They also believe that he needs time to put into practice the principles of the 2011 revolution.

The president’s supporters have strongly condemned the upcoming opposition rally, which marks Morsi’s first year in office, as a coup against democracy.

Egypt has witnessed continuing anti-government protests since Morsi took office in June 2012 in a landmark election held following the ouster of Mubarak.