A Cairo court has handed down death sentences over the deaths of 74 people in a stadium riot. Source: AAP
CLASHES killed at least 31 people in the Egyptian city of Port Said as violence raged into the early hours of Sunday in several cities including the capital following death sentences passed on 21 football fans after a riot.
The unrest came after a day of deadly protests against Islamist President Mohamed Morsi, highlighting deep political divisions in the country and long-standing tensions between police and protesters.
Trouble flared just minutes after a court on Saturday handed down the death sentences against fans of Port Said club Al-Masry after 74 people were killed in post-match violence last February following a match with Cairo side Al-Ahly.
Health ministry spokesman Ahmed Omar said 31 people died in the canal city.
In Cairo, police clashed with protesters on the outskirts of Tahrir Square - the symbolic heart of the revolt that ousted president Hosni Mubarak in 2011 - firing volleys of tear gas, witnesses said.
Demonstrators blocked the 6 October bridge, a vital flyover linking east and west Cairo, as police and masked protesters clashed on the Nile corniche.
Many Egyptians believe last year's deadly stadium riots in Port Said were orchestrated either by the police or by Mubarak supporters, and any verdict was likely to trigger a highly charged response.
Diehard Cairo football fans known as Ultras had threatened widespread chaos if justice was not served, but Port Said residents said the ruling was politically motivated.
Ultras were among the most vocal and active members of the opposition in the anti-Mubarak revolution.
"The government delivered a political ruling that sacrificed our children to avoid chaos," Ashraf Sayyed, who lives in Port Said, told AFP.
"Our children are the scapegoats used to restore calm in the rest of the country."
On Saturday, protesters in Port Said attacked police stations and relatives of those sentenced to death clashed with security forces as they tried to storm the Port Said jail holding the defendants.
Some attackers used automatic weapons against police who responded with tear gas, witnesses said.
Medics told AFP all the fatalities were from gunfire.
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