Egyptian Security Forces In Cairo Gun Battle

Egyptian security forces have fired tear gas and exchanged gunfire with armed groups on the outskirts of Cairo.

A police officer was shot dead as troops stormed into the Kerdash district to arrest people accused of torching a police station and killing 11 security officers during clashes after the ousting of President Mohamed Morsi last July, state TV said.

Security forces reportedly took control and imposed a curfew of the area, where police had effectively been banned for almost three months.

Morsi's exit was triggered by mass protests that led to counterprotests nationwide.

Violence between his supporters and security forces included large-scale attacks on police stations, individual security officers and churches.

At least 1,000 people have died in the violence with most deaths coming during the security forces' dispersal of two pro-Morsi sit-ins in Cairo on August 14.

About 100 police officers also died in the clashes.

Nearly 2,000 Islamist activists and politicians have been arrested since Morsi was forced from office.

Kerdasah, known for producing and selling fancy fabrics is 14 km from Cairo and known to be an Islamist stronghold.

Residents of the area said on Wednesday they were not in control but do not want police there.

"We don't trust them as we know they will come to arrest people we know and respect whom they blame on the violence that we know was done by outsiders, not by our respectable sheikhs," Ahmed Aly, a resident, told Reuters.

Egyptian security forces had last Monday stormed the town of Delga in Minya province, about 300 km south of Cairo, clearing barricades set up by Morsi's supporters there who were almost in control of the town.

Some 56 residents were arrested.

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