(3 Feb 2012)
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Egyptian police officers firing tear gas canister at angry protesters near Interior Ministry building
2. Wide of Al-Ahly football team fans firing fireworks at security forces
3. Wide of tear gas being fired at crowds of protesters
4. Wide of protesters throwing stones at police
5. Mid of protester pushing tear gas canister into fire
6. Mid of protesters around fire shouting
7. Mid of protesters in foreground, anti-riot policeman on top of a vehicle in the background
8. Mid of protester on the ground suffering from tear gas inhalation, protesters assisting him
9. Mid of protester throwing tear gas canister at police
10. Mid of protester running with tear gas canister, throwing it in fire
11. Wide pan left of motorcycle driving by
12. Wide of protesters with gas masks in front of cloud of smoke
STORYLINE:
Police in Cairo fired salvos of tear gas at rock-throwing protesters on Friday night in front of the country's Interior Ministry as popular anger over a deadly football riot spilled over into a second day of street violence.
Friday's protests across Egypt have left four people dead and more than 1,500 injured, doctors and health officials said.
The protesters blame the police for failing to prevent the melee after a football match in the Mediterranean city of Port Said on Wednesday killed 74 people.
The violence - the football world's worst in 15 years - has fuelled anger at Egypt's ruling military generals and the already widely distrusted police force.
Demonstrators in Cairo, the city of Suez and several Nile Delta cities on Friday turned their anger on the military, calling for it to surrender power because of what they say is the ruling generals' mismanagement of the country's transition to democracy.
The biggest demonstrations were in the capital, however, where protesters wearing gas masks fought their way through streets thick with smoke from tear gas toward the Interior Ministry, a frequent target for demonstrations because it is responsible for the police.
Many protesters have suggested the authorities either instigated the Port Said violence or intentionally allowed it to happen to retaliate against the football fans known as Ultras who played a key role in clashes with security forces during the uprising that toppled former President Hosni Mubarak.
Ambulances and volunteers on motorcycles ferried the injured though Cairo's smoke-filled streets on Friday night to field hospitals set up nearby in Tahrir Square.
Most of those were suffering respiratory problems from the tear gas.
One security officer was killed and 138 injured in the clashes, according to the official MENA news agency.
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