AP PHOTOS: Egyptians clash over ousted president
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?By The Associated PressEgyptian military convoy arrives near Tahrir Square during the clashes between opponents and supporters of the ousted President Mohammed Morsi in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, July 5, 2013. Enraged Islamists pushed back against the toppling of President Mohammed Morsi, as tens of thousands of his supporters marched in Cairo on Friday to demand his reinstatement and attacked his opponents. Nighttime clashes raged with stone-throwing, firecrackers and gunfire, and military armored vehicles raced across a Nile River bridge in a counterassault on Morsi?s supporters. (AP Photo/Virginie Nguyen Hoang)
Egyptian military convoy arrives near Tahrir Square during the clashes between opponents and supporters of the ousted President Mohammed Morsi in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, July 5, 2013. Enraged Islamists pushed back against the toppling of President Mohammed Morsi, as tens of thousands of his supporters marched in Cairo on Friday to demand his reinstatement and attacked his opponents. Nighttime clashes raged with stone-throwing, firecrackers and gunfire, and military armored vehicles raced across a Nile River bridge in a counterassault on Morsi?s supporters. (AP Photo/Virginie Nguyen Hoang)
Supporters and opponents of ousted Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi clash on the 6 October bridge, near Maspero, where Egypt's state tv and radio station is located, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, July 5, 2013. Tens of thousands of Islamists streamed across a Nile River bridge toward Cairo?s Tahrir Square on Friday, threatening a showdown moments after the top leader of the Muslim Brotherhood defiantly spoke before a cheering crowd of supporters, vowing to reinstate ousted President Mohammed Morsi and end military rule. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
Volunteers secure women opponents of Egypt's Islamist ousted president Mohammed Morsi as they announce a possible raid by Morsi supporters in Tahrir Square, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, July 5, 2013. Tens of thousands of Islamists streamed across a Nile River bridge toward Cairo?s Tahrir Square on Friday, threatening a showdown moments after the top leader of the Muslim Brotherhood defiantly spoke before a cheering crowd of supporters, vowing to reinstate ousted President Mohammed Morsi and end military rule. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
Supporters of Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi crowd during clashes with opponents where Maspero, Egypt's state tv and radio station is located, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, July 5, 2013. Enraged Islamists pushed back against the toppling of President Mohammed Morsi, as tens of thousands of his supporters marched in Cairo on Friday to demand his reinstatement and attacked his opponents. Nighttime clashes raged with stone-throwing, firecrackers and gunfire, and military armored vehicles raced across a Nile River bridge in a counterassault on Morsi?s supporters.(AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Supporters and opponents of Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi clash in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, July 5, 2013. Tens of thousands of Islamists streamed across a Nile River bridge toward Cairo?s Tahrir Square on Friday, threatening a showdown moments after the top leader of the Muslim Brotherhood defiantly spoke before a cheering crowd of supporters, vowing to reinstate ousted President Mohammed Morsi and end military rule. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
CAIRO (AP) ? Clashes raged around Cairo on Friday as supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi took the streets by the tens of thousands demanding his return to office. The violence started in the afternoon, when Islamist protesters marched on the Republican Guard headquarters in Cairo and troops guarding the facility opened fire.
After nightfall, a crowd of Morsi supporters marched across Cairo's 6th of October Bridge over the Nile River and attacked opponents of the ousted leader massed near central Tahrir Square and outside the state TV headquarters.
The result was several hours of battles. Islamists in helmets put up homemade shields of corrugated iron, trading volleys of stones. Gunshots rang out, the sound of shotguns and even automatic weapons. Flames leaped from a car set on fire at the top of an exit ramp from the bridge. Fireworks thrown by the anti-Morsi side flashed in the night.
Amdi the battle, seven military armored personnel carriers raced across the bridge to chase away the Morsi supporters and deploy at the TV building. Along the way, youth jumped on the vehicles' roofs, shouting insults at the Islamists.
Here's a gallery of images from the country's violence.
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