(1 Jul 2013) SHOTLIST
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1. Wide of scorched and damaged exterior of Muslim Brotherhood headquarters, smoke rising, protesters around and on walls of building
2. Mid of protester throwing kicking air-conditioning unit off the wall
3. Scorched walls, smoke
4. Broken windows
5. Pile of furniture burning at entrance to Muslim Brotherhood offices
6. Wide of protester carrying away refrigerator
7. Wide of protesters inside office, breaking glass windows
8. Close of looters carrying away furniture and other objects, going down stairs of building
9. Mid of armoured vehicle arriving at scene
10. Wide of armoured vehicle at scene
STORYLINE:
Protesters stormed and ransacked the Cairo headquarters of President Mohammed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood group early on Monday, as demonstrators geared up for a second day of mass rallies aimed at forcing the Islamist leader from power.
An Associated Press journalist at the scene said protesters managed to breach the compound's defences and storm the six-storey building, smashing windows and carting off furniture, files, rugs, blankets, air conditioning units and portraits of Morsi.
One protester was seen tearing down the Muslim Brotherhood sign from the building's front wall, while another hoisted Egypt's red, black and white flag out a window and waved it in the air in triumph.
A fire was still raging on one floor hours after the building was stormed and smoke billowed out of the heavily fortified villa.
The Brotherhood's headquarters, located in an eastern district of Cairo of Muqatam, had been the scene of clashes overnight between armed Morsi supporters barricaded inside the building and young protesters pelting it with firebombs and rocks.
Activists say at least five protesters were killed in the violence.
It was not immediately clear whether the Brotherhood supporters holed up inside who had been battling the protesters late on Sunday, fled the building overnight.
Morsi's critics view the Brotherhood headquarters as the seat of real power in Egypt, consistently claiming that the Islamist group's spiritual leader, Mohammed Badie and his powerful deputy, Khairat el-Shater, were the ones actually calling the shots in the country, not the president.
The Brotherhood has in recent weeks fortified the building's walls in anticipation of the massive opposition protests in which millions took part on Sunday in a display of anger and frustration with the Islamist leader on the anniversary of his inauguration.
IN all at least 10 people were killed in Sunday's clashes, including the five in front of the Brotherhood's Cairo headquarters, and hundreds injured.
On Monday, anti-Morsi protesters were gearing up for a second day of demonstrations with some protesters spent the night in dozens of tents pitched in the capital's central Tahrir Square and in front of the president's Ittihadiya Palace.
They have vowed to stay there until Morsi resigns.
The president's supporters, meanwhile, continued their sit-in in front of a major mosque in another part of Cairo.
The anti-Morsi demonstrators are calling for widespread labour strikes to start Monday in an attempt to ratchet up the pressure on the president, but it was not immediately clear whether unions would respond to the call.
Organisers are also calling for sit-ins at the Cabinet building, interim parliament, and another presidential place where Morsi has been working since late last week.
Sunday's protests were the largest seen in Egypt in the years of turmoil since the ouster of autocrat Hosni Mubarak in February 2011.
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