'Islamist' protester killed in clash with Egypt police: officials

An "Islamist" protester was killed in clashes with police in Egypt's second city Alexandria on Jan. 25, officials said, as the country marked the fraught anniversary of its 2011 popular uprising.
      
Police officials said the protester shot at police during an Islamist demonstration. Police returned fire and killed him, they said.

A bomb blast also wounded a policeman in Cairo, the interior ministry said.
      
Armoured vehicles were stationed around Cairo's iconic Tahrir Square -- the epicentre of the revolt against Mubarak -- after Islamists called for protests on Sunday against President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
      
Former army chief Sisi toppled Mubarak's Islamist successor Mohamed Morsi in July 2013 and has since led a crackdown on Morsi supporters that has left hundreds dead.
      
Jihadist militants have regularly targeted security forces since Morsi's ouster, killing scores of policemen and soldiers.        

The interior ministry said Sunday's bomb exploded in eastern Cairo's Alf Maskan neighbourhood, where a similar blast on Friday claimed by jihadist group Ajnad Misr wounded four policemen and a civilian.
      
It provided no further details on the blast or the condition of the wounded police officer.         Tensions have been running high ahead of Sunday's anniversary and a female demonstrator was killed in clashes with police during a rare leftwing protest in central Cairo on Saturday.
      
Shaima al-Sabbagh, who friends said was 34 and the mother of a five-year-old boy, died of birdshot wounds, a health ministry spokesman said.
      
Fellow protesters said she was hit by birdshot when police fired to disperse the march. The prosecutor has now launched a probe into...