Ahmed Sorour, 19, was run over and killed by a Central Security vehicle on Saturday when security forces attempted to disperse a sit-in against Kamal al-Ganzouri's appointment as prime minister.
At the doorstep of Zeinhom morgue, Sorour’s mother yelled and cried over her youngest son. She told Al-Masry Al-Youm she demanded him to return home three days ago but he refused.
She said her son was hit by a shotgun pellet in his left leg during the Israeli Embassy clashes on 9 September. He refused to get it removed, fearing he that would be arrested and accused of attacking the embassy.
Sorour’s brother Osama said detectives tried to bribe him to decline getting the body examined and publicize his brother’s death.
Security sources denied attempting to forcefully end the sit-in outside the cabinet building in Cairo and said the vehicle hit Sorour while going backward. The Interior Ministry apologized to the family over his death.
Sources from the forensic medicine department said the preliminary examination revealed there were abrasions on the lower part of the body, a pelvic fracture, and marks on his body and clothes from the vehicle's wheels.
Protests are still ongoing outside the cabinet building against Ganzouri, who is considered a figure of the former regime.
Translated from the Arabic Edition
