Violent clashes in Egypt that have left at least 22 people dead continue on Monday morning.
About 4000 protesters are in Tahrir Square, according to Al-Masry Al-Youm's correspondent there. Police are still firing rounds of tear gas.
Earlier in the morning there was news about a ceasefire in the square, but the situation there remains chaotic, the correspondent says.
At a field hospital in the Omar Makram mosque, Ahmad Sami, a volunteer doctor with the Tahrir Doctors Organization, said he saw six cases of people shot with live ammunition. Most cases, he told Al-Masry Al-Youm, are of injuries caused by shotgun pellets. Cases of asphyxiation by tear gas, he said, are more severe than usual.
A makeshift hospital was set up in an alley off Mohamed Mahmoud Street, where most of the fighting has taken place, but was repeatedly attacked with tear gas all night.
The Ministry of Health put the death toll at 22 this morning, and said more than 1000 people have been wounded.
Clashes in Tahrir Square and nearby streets have continued since Saturday, when police violently dispersed a sit-in by protesters, mainly people injured in the January uprising that toppled former President Hosni Mubarak in February.
During the day on Sunday, military forces and riot police stormed the square again to evacuate protesters, but immediately retreated and protesters regrouped. Intermittent clashes have continued over Sunday night and through Monday morning on Mohamed Mahmoud Street near the Interior Ministry building. Police used CS gas, rubber bullets and shotgun pellets.
