Hundreds of supporters of ousted Egyptian president Mohammed Mursi clashed with riot police in Cairo, Giza and Alexandria on Friday.<br /><br />The Egyptian government recently passed a highly-criticised law limiting the right to protest. It says it is simply enforcing the law by breaking up illegal demonstrations.<br /><br />In Alexandria, police used tear gas to scatter demonstrators who then retaliated with stones.<br /><br />Earlier two soldiers were killed in the Sinai Peninsula carrying out a raid that also left three al Qaeda-linked militants dead – according to the army.<br /><br />Security sources said the militants involved were from the same group which carried out a suicide bomb attack on the interior minister in September. He survived unscathed.
