- Egypt's interim government has imposed a month long state of emergency across the country today
- Muslim Brotherhood has claimed that 2,200 have been killed today and more than 5,000 have been injured so far
- Many of the group's leaders have been arrested by police in Cairo including Mohammed al-Beltagi
- The group has claimed that al-Beltagi's 17-year-old daughter was killed in today's violence
- The Egyptian Health Ministry has put the death toll at 149 with 526 injured in a statement this afternoon
- Snipers spotted on rooftops close to the two protest camps and reports claim that machine-gun fire has been heard
- Violence is said to have spread outside of Cairo to Nile cities of Minya, Assiut and Fayoum where nine have died
- Five people were also killed when protestors tried to storm a government building in Suez
- It is thought that a church was firebombed and set alight in Minya, some 250km from Cairo
- Egyptian vice president Mohamed Elbaradel is reported to have resigned following the outbreak of violence
- Travel advice for Britons is changed by Foreign Office, and EU, Iran, Turkey and Germany condemn violence
- Foreign Secretary William Hague released a statement condemning the use of force to remove protestors
- Tourist sites such as the Pyramids at Giza and branches of the Egyptian Central Bank have been closed today
15 August 2013
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