At Least 43 Dead In Egypt As Police Clear Out Pro-Morsi Camps In Cairo

Security forces backed by bulldozers moved in Wednesday on two huge protest camps set up in Cairo by supporters of Egypt's ousted president Mohamed Morsi, launching a long-threatened crackdown that left at least 43 dead and injured. The operation began shortly after dawn when security forces surrounded the sprawling Rabaa al-Adawiya camp in east Cairo and a similar one at Al-Nahda square, in the centre of the capital. Witnesses and an AFP correspondent said police rained canisters of tear gas do...