The main security building in Egypt's Port Said was in flames on Monday, as fresh fighting erupted between police and protesters in the restive canal city, an AFP correspondent said. The blaze, which started in the ground floor of the security headquarters, sent plumes of smoke into the air while clashes continued in the streets surrounding the building. Rescue services could not reach the area, witnesses said, as anger mounted in the city where a campaign of civil disobedience entered its third week.
The unrest, fuelled by January death sentences handed down to football fans over deadly riots, boiled over again overnight when clashes left six people - including three policemen- dead. Earlier thousands had taken to the streets for the funeral of the three civilians killed in the overnight clashes chanting against the police and Islamist President Mohamed Morsi.