Sunday, January 25, 2015

Mourners gather to bury mother gunned down by Cairo police on anniversary of Arab Spring as heartbreaking new pictures emerge of protesters attempting to carry her to safety after shooting

    egypt


  • WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT 
  • Shaima al-Sabbagh, 32, was shot in the head by police in Cairo
  • The mother-of-one hit by shots fired to disperse protest march
  • Protest held on eve of anniversary of the 2011 uprising against Mubarak 
  • Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab vowed to 'punish' whoever is responsible 
  • Al-Sabbagh's death follows that of an 18-year-old protester on Friday 

    • Tears: Large crowds of mourners ghathered in Alexandria to join the funeral cortege for the 32-year-old mother-of-one
    Tears: Large crowds of mourners ghathered in Alexandria to join the funeral cortege for the 32-year-old mother-of-one


    Tragedy: Mourners carry the coffin of Shaima al-Sabbagh, an Egyptian protester who was killed in clashes with the police, during her funeral on in Egypt's second city Alexandria on Sunday

    Tears: Large crowds of mourners ghathered in Alexandria to join the funeral cortege for the 32-year-old mother-of-one

    Ms al-Sabbagh was a political activist and a well-known member of the left-wing Socialist Popular Alliance Party

    Shocking moment female activist is gunned down by police during demonstrations on fourth anniversary of Arab Spring

        Life lost: Ms Al-Sabbagh, a member of the Socialist Popular Alliance party was taken to a hospital where she was declared dead
    A fellow protester carries the injured Ms al Sabbagh from the scene after she was shot

    A female demonstrator was killed in clashes with Egyptian police during a protest in central Cairo yesterday on the eve of the anniversary of the 2011 uprising against Hosni Mubarak. 
    A health ministry spokesman said Shaima al-Sabbagh died of birdshot wounds, which fellow protesters said were fired by police to disperse the march.


     Hit: This is the moment when Ms al-Sabbagh, 32, a Socialist Popular Alliance Party activist, was shot and killed when police fired into the crowd to disperse the demonstration in central Cairo on Saturday
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