Egypt’s presidency has declared a state of emergency after scores of people were killed when security forces stormed protest camps in Cairo, the BBC reports.
The camps had been occupied by supporters of former president Mohammed Morsi, who was deposed in early July.
Security forces say 95 people have been killed. But the Muslim Brotherhood, which backed the protests, says hundreds have died.
The state of emergency is scheduled to last for a month.
The measure was taken because the “security and order of the nation face danger due to deliberate sabotage, and attacks on public and private buildings and the loss of life by extremist groups,” the presidency said in a statement.
Shortly after dawn on Wednesday morning, armoured bulldozers moved deep into the main protest camp outside the eastern Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque.
Officials say the other protest camp, at Nahda Square, has been cleared.
