Three killed in Egypt protests

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2011&sol;01&sol;three-killed-in-egypt-protests&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full" title&equals;"A protester throws back a tear gas canister toward police at a demonstration in Cairo&comma; Egypt &lpar;AP&rpar;" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2011&sol;01&sol;min-three-killed-in-egypt-protests&period;jpg" alt&equals;"A protester throws back a tear gas canister toward police at a demonstration in Cairo&comma; Egypt &lpar;AP&rpar;"&sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Two protesters and a policeman have been killed in the anti-government demonstrations in Cairo and several other cities&comma; an Egyptian interior ministry official has said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The two protesters were killed during a demonstration in the city of Suez&period; 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&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The policeman died during the protest in Cairo&period; The official said he was hit in the head by a rock&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Thousands of anti-government protesters&comma; some hurling rocks and climbing atop an armoured police truck&comma; clashed with riot police in the centre of Cairo in a Tunisia-inspired demonstration to demand the end of Hosni Mubarak&&num;8217&semi;s nearly 30 years in power&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>After a day of violence&comma; thousands of demonstrators stood their ground in downtown Cairo&&num;8217&semi;s vast Tahrir Square&comma; steps away from parliament and other government buildings&period; They promised to camp out overnight&comma; setting the stage for an even more dramatic confrontation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Throughout the day&comma; 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 &&num;8220&semi;Down with Mubarak&&num;8221&semi; and demanding an end to Egypt&&num;8217&semi;s grinding poverty&comma; corruption&comma; unemployment and police abuses&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Tuesday&&num;8217&semi;s demonstration&comma; the largest Egypt has seen for years&comma; began peacefully&comma; 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&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>With discontent growing over economic woes&comma; and the toppling of Tunisia&&num;8217&semi;s president still resonating in the region&comma; Egypt&&num;8217&semi;s government &&num;8211&semi; which normally responds with swift retribution to any dissent &&num;8211&semi; needed to tread carefully&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But as crowds filled Tahrir Square &&num;8211&semi; waving Egyptian and Tunisian flags and adopting the same protest chants that rang out in the streets of Tunis &&num;8211&semi; security personnel changed tactics and the protest turned violent&period; Around 10&comma;000 protesters packed the square&comma; the interior ministry said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The sight of officers beating demonstrators had particular resonance because Tuesday was also a national holiday honouring the much-feared police&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68eedfcf74977">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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