Medical sources have reported that at least 15 people were killed on Monday in Cairo when, according to claims from the Muslim Brotherhood, gunfire was directed at supporters of Mohamed Morsi near the barracks where the ousted Egyptian president is being held.
The Egyptian army, on the other hand, announced that a terrorist group attempted to attack the military building where Morsi is located, resulting in one officer being killed and forty soldiers injured. A Muslim Brotherhood official, Murad Ali, stated that 34 supporters of Morsi were killed. He added that the shooting began at dawn while Islamists were holding a peaceful protest in front of the Republican Guard barracks.
Social Democrat Zijad Baha el-Din is likely to be appointed as Egypt’s interim prime minister, Reuters has learned from a presidential spokesperson.
He also stated that Mohamed El Baradei will assume the position of deputy prime minister. Baha el-Din is a lawyer educated at the University of Oxford, and he was responsible for investments in the former government of ousted president Hosni Mubarak during the period of liberalization, but later resigned from the position.
