» 26 killed in clashes as Egypt Islamists protest army coup

At least 26 people were killed in clashes across Egypt on Friday as tens of thousands of supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi turned out to protest his ouster by a popularly backed military coup.

A coalition of Islamist groups including Morsi´s Muslim Brotherhood vowed further "peaceful" protests in a statement early Saturday, demanding the military restore the country´s first democratically elected leader.

In the restive north of the Sinai peninsula, armed Morsi supporters stormed the provincial headquarters in the town of El-Arish after a gunfight and raised the black banner of Al-Qaeda-inspired Islamist militants, an AFP correspondent said.

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