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According to The Associated Press, the shooting came when hundreds of Morsi supporters marched on the Guard building, where Morsi was staying at the time of his ouster before being taken into military custody in an unknown location. The crowd approached a barbed wire barrier where troops were standing guard around the building.
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When one supporter hung a sign of Morsi on the barrier, the troops tore it down and told the crowd to stay back. A protester hung a second sign and the soldiers opened fire on the crowd, an Associated Press photographer at the scene said. Several protesters fell bloodied to the ground.
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Protesters pelted the line of troops with stones, and the soldiers responded with volleys of tear gas.
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The shooting risks to escalate Egypt's confrontation, with supporters of Morsi ? largely Islamists ? rejecting the army's ousting of the country's first freely elected president Wednesday night and installation of a new civilian administration. The protester casualties are likely to further fuel calls by some in the Islamist movement for violent retaliation.
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The Brotherhood called for Friday's protests, which took place at several sites around the capital and in other cities. Brotherhood officials underlined strongly to their followers that their rallies should be peaceful.
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A crowd of tens of thousands of Morsi supporters filled much of a broad boulevard outside a Cairo mosque several blocks away from the Republican Guard headquarters, vowing to remain in place until Morsi is restored. The protesters railed against what they called the return of the regime of autocrat Hosni Mubarak, ousted in early 2011.
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?The old regime has come back? worse than before,? said Ismail Abdel-Mohsen, an 18-year-old student among the crowds outside the Rabia al-Adawiya Mosque. He dismissed the new interim head of state sworn in a day earlier, senior judge Adly Mansour, as ?the military puppet.?
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The crowd began to march on the headquarters of the Republican Guard, many chanting, ?After sunset, President Morsi will be back in the palace.?
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The military forced Morsi out Wednesday after millions of Egyptians turned out in four days of protests demanding his removal and saying he had squandered his electoral mandate by putting power in the hands of his own Muslim Brotherhood and other, harder-line Islamists. In the 48 hours since, the military has moved against the Brotherhood's senior leadership, putting Morsi under detention and arresting the group's supreme leader and a string of other figures.
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Morsi supporters say the military has wrecked Egypt's democracy by carrying out a coup against an elected leader. They accuse Mubarak loyalists and liberal and secular opposition parties of turning to the army for help because they lost at the polls to Islamists.
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But many supporters have equally seen it as a conspiracy against Islam.
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Many at Friday's protests held copies of the Quran in the air, and much of the crowd had the long beards of ultraconservative men or encompassing black robes and veils worn by women, leaving only the eyes visible. One protester shouted that the sheik of Al-Azhar ? Egypt's top Muslim cleric who backed the military's move ? was ?an agent of the Christians? ? reflecting a sentiment that the Christian minority was behind Morsi's ouster.
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The protesters set up ?self-defense? teams, with men staffing checkpoints touting sticks and home-made body shields. There was no significant presence of military forces near the protests.
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Military appeal
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Earlier, the military had appealed for conciliation and warned against unrest, as police rounded up senior Islamists ahead of the planned Brotherhood protests.
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The authorities have also closed the Rafah border crossing with Gaza for the day.
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Army, led by General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, released a statement later on Thursday on its Facebook page, saying that everyone had a right to peaceful protest, but that right should not be abused.
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Excessive protests, the army warned, could lead to civil unrest, while reiterating that it was not targeting any political group.
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?Wisdom, true nationalism and constructive human values that all religions have called for, require us now to avoid taking any exceptional or arbitrary measures against any faction or political current,? the statement said.
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Even the newly sworn-in interim leader Adly Mansour, who replaced Morsi as the president, used his inauguration on Thursday to heal the relationship with the Brotherhood.
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?The Muslim Brotherhood are part of this people and are invited to participate in building the nation as nobody will be excluded, and if they respond to the invitation, they will be welcomed,? he said.
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Among the top Brotherhood leaders arrested were the group's supreme leader, Mohamed Badie, while his powerful deputy, Khairat el-Shater, was wanted for questioning.
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Other senior leader, such as Saad al-Katatni, Mohammed al-Beltagui, Gamal Gibril and Taher Abdel Mohse, would also be questioned.
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