Michael Mann, a spokesman for European Union Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton said: "The reports of deaths and injuries are extremely worrying… We reiterate that violence won't lead to any solution and we urge the Egyptian authorities to proceed with utmost restraint."
The Egyptian Interior Ministry released the statement: "Security forces used only tear gas canisters to disperse the protesters though it was heavily fired at by armed elements from inside the two protest camps, causing the death of an officer and a conscript and the injury of four policemen and two conscripts."
A number of Muslim Brotherhood leaders have been arrested but names have not been released.
Reportedly, many of the Morsi supporters are hiding in Cairo University and in the zoo.
