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Jordanians protest near Egyptian embassy against violence

14 August 2013 18:46 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. Dozens of Jordanians held a sit-in near the Egyptian embassy in Amman on Wednesday in protest of Egyptian army's dispersing of supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi, APA reports quoting Xinhua.

Participants of the sit-in, organized by the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, slammed the "massacres" committed by the Egyptian security forces during the dispersing operation on early Wednesday.

The demonstrators criticized Jordan's silence toward what they described as a "coup" in Egypt, and described the crackdown on protestors in Egypt as a "war on Islam."

Jordanian security forces have been heavily deployed in the area.

The Egyptian security forces took full control of two major squares, where supporters of Morsi had been sitting in for some 45 days, after the "clearing-up operation" started in the early hours of Wednesday, state-run MENA news agency reported.

However, the number of deaths and injuries as a result of the clearing-up at Rabaa al-Adawiya Square in Cairo's Nasr City and Nahda Square in Giza remains conflicting at the moment.

Official Ahram Online, quoting the ambulance authority, said five people were killed after the dawn operation and 52 injured in confrontations between security forces and Morsi's supporters at the two squares; while State TV specified that a police officer and a police recruit were killed at Rabaa al-Adawiya, and three protesters were killed at Nahda.