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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/three-killed-in-egypt-protests.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="A protester throws back a tear gas canister toward police at a demonstration in Cairo, Egypt (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-three-killed-in-egypt-protests.jpg" alt="A protester throws back a tear gas canister toward police at a demonstration in Cairo, Egypt (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>Two protesters and a policeman have been killed in the anti-government demonstrations in Cairo and several other cities, an Egyptian interior ministry official has said.</p>
<p>The two protesters were killed during a demonstration in the city of Suez. The official said one of them had respiratory problems and died as a result of tear gas inhalation and the other was killed by a rock thrown during the protest.</p>
<p>The policeman died during the protest in Cairo. The official said he was hit in the head by a rock.</p>
<p>Thousands of anti-government protesters, some hurling rocks and climbing atop an armoured police truck, clashed with riot police in the centre of Cairo in a Tunisia-inspired demonstration to demand the end of Hosni Mubarak&#8217;s nearly 30 years in power.</p>
<p>After a day of violence, thousands of demonstrators stood their ground in downtown Cairo&#8217;s vast Tahrir Square, steps away from parliament and other government buildings. They promised to camp out overnight, setting the stage for an even more dramatic confrontation.</p>
<p>Throughout the day, police blasted crowds with water cannons and set upon them with batons and acrid clouds of tear gas in an attempt to clear demonstrators crying out &#8220;Down with Mubarak&#8221; and demanding an end to Egypt&#8217;s grinding poverty, corruption, unemployment and police abuses.</p>
<p>Tuesday&#8217;s demonstration, the largest Egypt has seen for years, began peacefully, with police showing unusual restraint in what appeared to be a calculated strategy by the government to avoid further sullying the image of a security apparatus widely criticised as corrupt and violent.</p>
<p>With discontent growing over economic woes, and the toppling of Tunisia&#8217;s president still resonating in the region, Egypt&#8217;s government &#8211; which normally responds with swift retribution to any dissent &#8211; needed to tread carefully.</p>
<p>But as crowds filled Tahrir Square &#8211; waving Egyptian and Tunisian flags and adopting the same protest chants that rang out in the streets of Tunis &#8211; security personnel changed tactics and the protest turned violent. Around 10,000 protesters packed the square, the interior ministry said.</p>
<p>The sight of officers beating demonstrators had particular resonance because Tuesday was also a national holiday honouring the much-feared police.</p>
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