CAIRO - Bursts of heavy gunfire rang out overnight in Cairo's Tahrir Square. Al Jazeera English reports that five people were killed in the violence. As the sun rises in Cairo, the gunfire has ceased for the moment.
Mustafa al-Naggar says he saw the bodies of three dead protesters being carried toward an ambulance before dawn on Thursday. He says the automatic weapons fire directed into the square came from at least three locations off in the distance.
The Egyptian military has had the square ringed with tank squads to try to keep order, but al-Naggar says they did not intervene.
The health minister did not answer a phone call seeking confirmation of the deaths.
Hours earlier, supporters of President Hosni Mubarak armed with rocks, sticks and firebombs charged into the square in what appeared to be an orchestrated assault against protesters.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's Tuesday night speech had only inflamed the street, "CBS Evening News" Anchor Katie Couricreports from Cairo. Mubarak's supporters flooded the Tahrir Square Wednesday. Some rode in on horses and camels brandishing weapons and hurling rocks. Baca Seterusnya Sini
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