Egyptian police gun down a woman in Cairo on Arab Spring anniversary

#arabspring #TahrirSquare #egypt #cairo #abdelfattahalsisi A woman demonstrator was gunned down in clashes with Egyptian police during a protest in central Cairo on the eve of the anniversary of the 2011 Arab Spring uprising against Hosni Mubarak. As informed by a spokesman of the health ministry, the woman Shaima al-Sabbagh died of birdshot wounds. Fellow protesters said those were fired by police to disperse the march.
The woman, an activist of the Socialist Popular Alliance Party is believed to be 34-years-old with a five-year-old son and the police shot her in the head as she was marching peacefully marched towards the Tahrir Square to lay a commemorative wreath of roses.
She was taken to the hospital but was declared dead on arrival.
Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab has said that the death was being investigated and vowed that 'whoever committed a mistake will be punished. A suggestion is that the Islamist 'infiltrators' were to blame.
The clash had taken place hours before state television aired a pre-recorded speech by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to mark the fourth anniversary of the uprising in which he has said that - 'I salute all our martyrs, from the beginning of January 25 (2011) until now.'
It may be recalled that Arab Spring had overthrown Hosni Mubarak and brought to power Islamist president Mohamed Morsi who was, in turn, toppled by the then army chief Sisi in July 2013.