Hundreds of officers from Egypt’s Central Security Forces (CSF) apparatus staged protests on Sunday, cutting the Obour Market’s main road on the Cairo-Ismailia desert highway following reports that one of their colleagues had been tortured to death inside a police base in the area.

Protesting officers also severed the centrally-located Nahda Street in the 10 Ramadan industrial city, hurled rocks at the local police headquarters and fired shots into the air.    

On Sunday afternoon, a high-level CSF source announced that no deaths had occurred inside the base in question. The source acknowledged, however, that a high-ranking CSF officer had in fact beaten an officer resulting in the temporary loss of consciousness.