CAIRO: Tens of thousands of protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square received the news of the Egyptian Cabinet's resignation with chants demanding the ousting of the ruling military council. “They remove a government or keep a government, that is not our business,” one protester in Tahrir told Bikyamasr.com. “What we want is the military out, this is retracing our steps as January and February,” he added. The Egyptian cabinet announced late on Monday it had presented its resignation to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) to accept. The SCAF, on the other hand, did not comment on the resignation as of yet, and gave a statement aired by state TV saying they invite “all political powers to a dialogue to stand on the reasons behind the recent events.” The number of Egyptians arriving to the square is increasing, despite the growing violence in Mohamed Mahmoud street, off of Tahrir square. Police forces continue to bombard protesters with heavy tear gas, rubber bullets and live ammunition. A medical source inside one of the makeshift field hospitals told Bikyamasr.com that he gave first aid to protesters who were shot with live ammunition, one of them was shot in the chest from close range. The doctor said the field hospital receives over one hundred injuries every hour or less and serious injuries are transferred to nearby hospitals. The number of makeshift hospitals has risen from three on Sunday to five on Monday due the increasing number of injuries that has passed 3,000 thus far in three days of violence. Police have denied using any weapons other than tear gas bombs, while doctors, eyewitness and gunshots wounds proves the opposite. The constant fighting has entered its third day with no signs of stopping after it started on Saturday mornning when police used excesive force to remove a few hundred protesters, who were sleeping in the square. The official death toll so far according to early Monday numbers was at 35 people, with no confirmed number of the dead so far on Monday. BM
