ElBaradei resigns
Egyptian vice president, Nobel laureate Mohamed ElBaradei, announced his resignation in a letter to the interim president on Wednesday seen by AFP.
The resignation comes after scores were killed in a crackdown by security forces on loyalists of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi.
"It has become too difficult to continue bearing responsibility for decisions I do not agree with and whose consequences I fear," ElBaradei said.
He said his conscience was troubled over the loss of life "particularly as I believe it could have been avoided".
"Unfortunately those who gain from what happened today are those who call for violence and terror, the extremist groups," he said.
Meanwhile, hundreds of angry supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi marched through Egypt's second city of Alexandria yesterday rioting and armed with wooden clubs, an AFP reporter said.
In the Ibrahimiya district, they stormed a police station and looted furniture and equipment inside, an AFP reporter said.
Earlier, in another part of Alexandria, tear gas canisters rained down on a pro-Morsi march in the Sharq neighbourhood, amid repeated bursts of automatic gunfire.
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