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Clashes during protests in Egypt on Saturday lead to a death toll of 49 during violence, the Egyptian Health Ministry said on Sunday, that sparked on the third anniversary of the a popular uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak last year .
250 people were also injured in the capital and other area, the ministry said.
Thousands gathered in support of army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who toppled Egypt’s first democratically elected president in July while others protested against the military-backed government.
The Interior Ministry said in a statement on Sunday that it had detained 1,079 “rioters” in possession of rifles, petrol bombs, fireworks, and other weapons. It said that a number of policemen were also injured in clashes.
Egypt has been gripped by political upheaval and street violence since Mubarak’s was ousted.
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