Egyptian protester dies in clashes with police
By Associated Press
Mar 9, 2013 9:53 AM CST
Egyptian soccer fans of Al-Ahly club celebrate in front of their club in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, March 9, 2013 An Egyptian court confirmed death sentences against 21 people for their role in a deadly 2012 soccer riot that killed more than 70 people in the city of Port Said. Banner at background showing...   (Associated Press)

Security officials say a protester has died of tear gas inhalation during clashes between police and hundreds of stone-throwing demonstrators in central Cairo.

The officials say the protester died Saturday on a Nile-side road where clashes have been taking place daily between anti-government protesters and police near two luxury hotels and the U.S. and British embassies.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media.

The clashes are unrelated to the protests going on elsewhere in Cairo by soccer fans furious with a court decision to acquit seven police officials for their alleged role in a deadly stadium riot last year. The fans torched the soccer federation headquarters and a police club.

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