The ministry of health said that six protesters have been killed and 300 injured in the ongoing attack by security forces on protesters who had been staging a peaceful sit-in at the cabinet headquarters in downtown Cairo.
Meanwhile, various doctors and political activists have confirmed that the number of dead on Friday was six but put the numbers of injured at 498.
Friends and colleagues of Alaa Abdel-Hadi, a 5th year medical school student who was killed earlier Fridary with a bullet to the head, plan on marching from his Ain Shams University to the headquarters of the ministry of defense Saturday to protest his death.
Family and supporters of Abdel-Hadi announced plans to hold prayer services for the fallen student SAturday at Al-Nour mosque in the Abbassiya district of Cairo.
Alaa told friends in his last tweet Friday shortly before he was killed: I am headed to the cabinet to see what is happening. God be by my side!
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