Rocket-propelled grenade fired at Cairo satellite station, 2 hurt

                
Assailants fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a state-owned satellite station in the Maadi suburb of Cairo on Monday, wounding two people, security officials said.  
         
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.

This comes after gunmen killed five Egyptian soldiers near the Suez Canal city of Ismailia, security sources said, highlighting the growing security challenges since the army ousted Islamist President Mohamed Morsi in July.           

The security sources said the gunmen opened fire on the soldiers while they were sitting in a car at a checkpoint near Ismailia on the Suez Canal, a vital global trade route.         

Egypt stumbled deeper into turmoil after a national holiday celebrating the military turned to mayhem, leaving 51 dead across the country and exposing the deep divisions plaguing the nation.                               

The high death toll in Sunday's clashes between security forces and Islamist protesters came as crowds from Egypt's two rival camps  supporters of the ousted Islamist president, Mohammed Morsi, and backers of the military that deposed him  poured into the streets and turned on each other.                           

Several neighborhoods of the capital, Cairo, resembled combat zones after street battles that raged for hours.                              

Morsi's supporters fired birdshot and threw firebombs at police who responded with gunshots and tear gas. Streets were left strewn with debris, and the air was thick with tear gas and smoke from burning fires, as the crack of gunfire rang out.                          

An Associated Press photographer saw nine bodies lying on the floor of a clinic in the Cairo district of Dokki, scene of some of the heaviest clashes. Most of the bodies had gunshot wounds to the head or chest.                                

It was the highest death toll in a single day in violence in Egypt since Aug. 14, when security forces raided two sit-in protest camps by Morsi's supporters in Cairo, killing hundreds.                


AP/REUTERS