"I call on them, throughout these incidents, to look at the coming elections and prepare for them so they get the change they want. But change through violence is rejected and the Egyptian people do not allow it. We are working as a government to stop this rioting and are thwarting any attempts to attack government buildings or people."

 

　　His comments came a day after protesters clashed with security forces in central Cairo's Tahrir Square and outside the presidential palace.

 

　　Security forces pumped volley after volley of tear gas and set fire to protester tents.

 

　　Protesters burned tyres and hurled stones and fireworks.

 

　　The Health Ministry said a 23-year-old died when he was shot in the chest and forehead.

 

　　The protesters in Tahrir Square have condemned an action by security forces who stripped and beat a protester.

 

　　"I can't bear seeing something like that. How can someone drag people on the ground like that? This man is a protester like us. This is unfair, we are in Egypt, this should not be happening. Enough, there has too much blood."

 

　　The march on the palace, where President Mohamed Morsi was not in, was part of a wave of demonstrations in cities around the country called by the opposition.