Police storm protest camps; 149 dead across Egypt

Police storm protest camps; 149 dead across Egypt

CAIRO (AP) - Riot police backed by armored vehicles, bulldozers and helicopters today swept away two encampments of supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi, sparking running street battles elsewhere in Cairo and other Egyptian cities. At least 149 people were killed nationwide, many of them in the crackdown on the protest sites. Vice President Mohamed ElBaradei, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and pro-reform leader in the interim government, resigned in protest over the crackdown as the military-backed leadership imposed a monthlong state of emergency and nighttime curfew.