Thousands of protesters flocked to Tahrir Square Monday night as fighting continued on Mohamed Mahmoud, where battle lines separated security forces from protesters. Mohamed Mahmoud is a street leading to the square. The police fired tear gas at the protesters from 50 meters away as demonstrators made their way to the fight via side streets. However, the ongoing clashes appeared to be less violence than they were the previous night. A lot of people were seen using stretchers to carry the wounded to Tahrir's field hospital, but injuries appeared to be less serious than they were on Sunday. Ayman, a field hospital doctor, told Al-Masry Al-Youm that his hospital has received fewer injuries than last night, and that he did not receive any live bullet injuries on Monday despite having received several the previous day. Most of the injuries on Monday, he said, involved cases of suffocation, rubber bullets, and bird shot. There were unconfirmed reports that people broke into the American University in Cairo and stole laptops, but that protesters had intervened to apprehend the thieves and the stolen items. Violence began raging in Tahrir Square on Saturday following a botched attempt by police forces to evict a sit-in of protesters in the square. Protesters demand the ruling military council's ouster from power and its replacement by a civilian authority, as well as an end to police abuse against protesters.
