CAIRO: The head of the coronary committee responsible for putting together a report on those killed in October 9′s state television attack on Coptic Christian protesters by the military said the report would not be finished for another week. In an an interview with al-Shorouk newspaper, Ehssan Kamil George said the committee will start examining the victims' clothes and write their final report on Saturday, adding that all the victims who died of gun shots had no bullets in their bodies, as the shots came in and exited the body. So far the official number of victims is 26 people and hundreds injured. George announced that the morgue only received one dead body of a solider, who was also hit by gun shots and died of his wounds a day later. This is a contradiction to the ruling military council's story, which they claimed at least three soldiers were killed during the violence. Eyewitness testimonies and videos documenting the events of last Sunday showed the armed forces shooting at protesters and running them over with armored vehicles. Kamil said the running over wounds were obvious and the victims died of injuries to the head and the chest. The ruling military council denied using force against the protesters in a recent press conference, saying that the soldiers were merely “protecting themselves against the armed Copts.” The protesters rejected the notion that they were armed, saying no one in the march that started in the residential district of Shubra were carrying any weapons, “just crosses and banners,” the protesters said. BM
