DHAKA: A student was killed and 60 arrested as Egyptian police entered a Cairo university on Saturday to confront Islamist protesters who torched a building, amid an intensifying crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood.

Egypt officials said, reports The Straits Times.

The unrest followed nationwide repression of Islamist protests on Friday after the military-installed government listed the Brotherhood, the movement of deposed president Mohamed Mursi, as a terrorist organisation.

A hospital official said a 19-year-old student was shot dead in the clashes at the Al-Azhar University campus, where pro-Mursi students have regularly staged protests since his overthrow by the army in July.

The students had entered the commerce faculty during an exam and set it alight, before police burst into the campus and fired tear gas.

BDST: 1920 HRS, DEC 28, 2013
Edited by Robab Rosan, Current Affairs Editor