University students loyal to the Muslim Brotherhood clash with police and reportedly set two buildings on fire at al-Azhar University in Cairo. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
Three people have been killed and 265 arrested in a crackdown on demonstrations in Egypt.
A man stands outside a faculty building at Cairo's Al-Azhar University after student supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood stormed it yesterday Source: AFP
Security forces patrol outside the burning Faculty of Commerce. Al-Azhar students have been protesting for weeks against the ousting of President Mohammed Morsi. Source: AP
A student died and a building was torched at Egypt's main Islamic university as riot police fired teargas to break up a strike.
Police said yesterday they entered eastern Cairo's Al-Azhar campus, the site of frequent clashes in recent weeks, and deployed around other Egyptian universities late on Saturday (AEDT) to prevent supporters of ousted president Mohammed Morsi from intimidating other students trying to take the tests.
Pro-Morsi activists have called for an exam boycott but deny government claims that they threatened anyone.
Students at al-Azhar, a stronghold of Morsi supporters, have been protesting for weeks against his ouster and a subsequent state crackdown, which saw his Muslim Brotherhood group declared a terrorist organisation last week. The Brotherhood dismisses the label and has vowed to keep up its protests against Egypt-military backed authorities.
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Higher Education Hossam Eissa said authorities would go after those he said were financing non-peaceful protests on campuses, and accused the Brotherhood of seeking to derail exams.
"The aim of the terrorist Brotherhood group is to call off university exams," he said according to comments published on the state news agency MENA. "The role of the government is to restore security especially before the referendum on the constitution."
The government has intensified its crackdown on Brotherhood and Morsi supporters ahead of a January 14-15 constitutional referendum they see as a milestone in the transition plan. Authorities fear Morsi supporters will seek to derail the key vote, through protests or violence.
University professors and security officials accused protesting students of blocking entrances to classes and harassing students as they made their way into the campus.
A statement from the Interior Ministry, in charge of the police, said students stormed several buildings on campus to "terrorise students and faculty." It said some fired shotguns into the air and smashed furniture.
The ministry statement said the attack prompted the police to move in to disperse the crowd, leading the students to setting the Faculty of Commerce on fire.
Aya Fathy, a student spokeswoman, disputed the officials' claim, saying the students were protesting peacefully. She said police moved in to break up protesters outside the faculty building, firing indiscriminately at them, and killing student Khaled el-Haddad.
She accused police of setting the building on fire to blame the students. She said the police force was chasing students on campus.
Footage from local TV stations and social media websites showed the campus as a battleground. Flames rose from the three-storey building, with rooms inside badly torched. Pitched battles pitting police against rock-throwing students, some armed with what appeared to be homemade guns or projectile launchers, left the campus deserted, strewn with rocks and debris.
Other video showed plainclothes security with sticks grabbing a woman by her veil, kicking her, and manhandling her away.
Exams were postponed at the Faculty of Commerce and other schools on campus. The university dean said the delay will only be for hours. Osama el-Abd, the dean, told Egypt's state news agency that alternative classrooms would be provided for the students to carry out the exams, and those scheduled Sunday. He said investigation would be launched to determine the students behind Saturday's violence.
The Interior Ministry didn't mention el-Haddad's death in its statement. But a security official confirmed he was killed and said 14 others were injured.
AP
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