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Egyptian police arrest 1,000 in violent clashes
Egyptian officials last night confirmed two people had been killed in a fresh wave of anti-government protests in central Cairo.
Security sources said that a protester and a policeman died after being hit by a car during a clash in a poor neighborhood. It brings the total number of people killed to six in two days of demonstrations against President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year regime.
News of the deaths came as the brother of political reform campaigner Mohamed ElBaradei confirmed he would return to Egypt on Thursday. ElBaradei is a vocal advocate of reform in Egyptian politics and a figurehead for many of the activists who organized the protests.
Egyptian police used tear gas, beatings and live ammunition fired into the air to quell those attempting to stage a repeat of the demonstrations that a day earlier brought tens of thousands of people on to the streets .
Nearly 1,000 people were arrested across Egypt yesterday as police mounted a coordinated crackdown using tear gas and beatings. The previous day up to 20,000 people joined marches across the nation that resulted in violent clashes, leaving a policeman and three protesters dead.