Two Protesters were shot dead late Thursday in the city of Suez as police tried to disperse demonstrators, amid anger over the football massacre that left 74 people killed on Wednesday.

Two Protesters were shot dead late Thursday in the city of Suez as police tried to disperse demonstrators, amid anger over the football massacre that left 74 people killed on Wednesday.

There were also thirty people injured in the clashes, medical sources reported, without saying who fired the fatal shots.

"We received two corpses of protesters shot dead by live ammunition," a doctor at a morgue where the bodies were kept told the Reuters news agency.
Witnesses said that police had fired tear gas in a bid to disperse hundreds of protesters before resorting to live ammunition.

However a security source said officers had not opened fire on the protesters, adding that hundreds of people who "attacked" the local security headquarters in the northeastern city were themselves armed.

After the two male protesters were killed, witnesses said fighting broke out at a local police station in the northeastern city in the early hours of Friday.

Earlier on Thursday thousands had protested in Cairo, accusing the ruling military council, which took power following the ouster of former President Hosni Mubarak last year, of mismanaging the country during a fragile transition.

In Tahrir Square, witnesses saw at least five ambulances rush in the direction of Thursday's clashes.
Some demonstrators tried to move big concrete blocks erected around the interior ministry since November, when clashes between the police and protesters then left more than 40 people dead.