Clashes turn violent outside Muslim Brotherhood offices, dozens injured

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Amr Abdallah Dalsh / ReutersAn anti-Mursi protester stands with the national flag after protesters burned Muslim Brotherhood buses during clashes near the Muslim Brotherhood's national headquarters in Cairo's Moqattam district on March 22, 2013.Mohamed Abd El Ghany / ReutersMuslim Brotherhood supporters conduct Friday noon prayers in front of the main headquarters of the Brotherhood in Cairo on March 22, 2013.Amr Nabil / APEgyptians shout anti-Muslim Brotherhood slogans during a march from downtown to the main Brotherhood headquarters in the hilltop neighborhood of Muqattam, Cairo, Egypt, on March 22, 2013. Thousands of protesters from different areas of Cairo are marching on Friday to express their rejection of the Muslim Brotherhood and President Mohammed Morsi's rule.Amr Nabil / APEgyptians shout anti-Muslim Brotherhood slogans during a demonstration, in Talaat Harb Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt, on March 22, 2013.By Reuters

CAIRO (Reuters) - Hundreds of Egyptian protesters and Muslim  Brotherhood supporters clashed near the group's headquarters in Cairo on Friday,  and at least 30 people were wounded, medics said.

Columns of riot police stood guard as chanting protesters holding flags and  banners packed streets around the Brotherhood headquarters, footage on Al  Jazeera and state TV showed.

Earlier in the day, Brotherhood supporters had arrived in the vicinity on  buses and were showered with stones from the protesters, and Brotherhood  supporters threw stones back, witnesses said. About 30 people were wounded in  the fighting, Mohamed Sultan, the head of the ambulance service, said.

Continue reading.Khaled Desouki / AFP - Getty ImagesSupporters of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood clash with anti-government protesters near the movements' headquarters in Cairo on March 22, 2013.Amr Abdallah Dalsh / ReutersAnti-Mursi protesters carry a Muslim Brotherhood member after hitting him during clashes near the Muslim Brotherhood's national headquarters in Cairo on March 22, 2013.Amr Nabil / APEgyptian policemen write a report at a destroyed branch headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood after protesters broke in to the building in Cairo, Egypt, on March 22, 2013.Khaled Elfiqi / EPAAn Egyptian anti-Muslim brotherhood protester throws a stone towards Muslim brotherhood supporters during clashes near the party's national headquarters in Cairo on March 22.Khaled Elfiqi / EPAAn injured Egyptian anti-Muslim brotherhood protester is taken away by his comrades, during clashes near the Muslim Brotherhood's national headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, on March 22.Follow @NBCNewsPictures  

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