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CAIRO, May 2 (Reuters) – Nine people were killed in clashes
that erupted at an anti-army protest near Cairo’s Defence
Ministry on Wednesday, an Interior Ministry source said.
Mohamed Mursi, the presidential candidate for the Muslim
Brotherhood, said in a statement he was suspending his campaign
for two days in mourning for the dead, the second candidate to
announce a suspension of campaigning in protest.
The Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party said it was
boycotting a meeting planned between the army council and
political parties after violence it said signalled an attempt to
“obstruct the handover of power” by a July 1 deadline.
(Reporting by Shaimaa Fayed; Writing by Edmund Blair; Editing
by Janet Lawrence)
