A teenager has been killed in Egypt after an Islamist mob threw him off a ledge on top of a roof and beat him as he lay dying, local media reports.
The young man, identified as Hamada Badr, 19, and his three friends were caught on camera hiding from a large group who had chased them onto a terrace in Alexandria.
The video, apparently filmed with a mobile phone camera from across the road, show the four teenagers escaping onto a 20ft ledge during violent protests on Friday.
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Terror: The video, apparently filmed with a mobile phone camera from a rooftop across the road, show the four teenage boys escaping onto a 20ft ledge atop a roof in Alexandria as the mob gathers around them
Trapped: The mob gather around the young men as the fourth teen manages to climb onto to ledge, and they begin throwing rocks at them to get them down
The violent mob on the street appear to have chased them to the roof and the boys climb onto the structure as a group of agitated men gather around them.
The boys had been out celebrating the ousting of Islamist president Muhammad Morsi, when they ran into the former leader's supporters, one of the boys' father told Al Arabiya.
Victim: The first teenager falls off the ledge and lies motionless as the mob gathers around his body
Attack: The boy does not move as the men close up on him and begin beating him
Fatal: The second boy, in red, is brought off the ledge and shortly before the camera moves away, the aggressive Islamist mob can be seen beating the teenagers, one of which reportedly died
Shortly afterwards two of the boys are thrown off the ledge and are savagely beaten as they lay injured on the roof.
Hamada Badr, aged 19, was killed in the lynch mob attack, Al Arabiya said.
'Do you know the teen that they killed and disfigured his body and threw from the fifth floor is only 19 and four days,' Mohammed Badr, father of the killed teen, told el-Watan News.
'All he was guilty of was that he was on the roof of the building, celebrating the ousting of Morsi. But the Brotherhood waged a war against whoever was celebrating Morsi's departure.
'After throwing him, they wanted to do the same with the others, but people in the neighbourhood stopped them,' Badr's father said.
After the video began circulating online, a Facebook group run by an opposition ground calling themselves 'Six April Students', posted a picture of a handsome, young man they claim is Hamada Badr, blaming 'Muslim Brotherhood and other terrorist groups' for his death.
Alexandria, on the Mediterranean coast, has been at the centre of some of the most violent protests during the recent political unrest in the country.
On the day the video was filmed, twelve people were killed in clashes in the Egyptian, Mr Amr Nasr, head of emergency services in the city, said.
He also told the state news agency MENA that around 200 were injured. Most of the fatalities were from gunshot wounds.
On Saturday, at least 60 people were injured in clashes in Alexandria after Muslim Brotherhood supporters marched against a rally of Morsi-opponents in Sidi Jaber, the very same area where the video was recorded the day before, local news reported.
Radiation hazard!
If what this article says is true, if you live on the west coast of Canada or the United States, you're pretty much already screwed at this point thanks to the Japanese earthquake and tsunami of 2011. Radiation levels are already increasing in the food and water, babies born with thyroid issues linked to radiation are rising quickly and governments in Canada and the United States are raising the "acceptable levels" of certain toxic substances in the food being shipped in from Japan.
The fancy little picture at the top of the article isn't showing you the flow of happy fun time thoughts from Japan back in March of 2012, it's showing you the flow of radiation from the Fukushima nuclear plant after the devastating earthquake and tsunami of 2011. The image shows the radiation reaching almost past Hawaii more than a year ago.
10.. I guess😛Originally posted by: Prometeus
Speaking of independence, does anyone know how many independence days does Egypt have? I have lost count.😕
Originally posted by: K.Universe.
Lot of forum fights. A little perspective please!
Find out where you are on the map (Earth and moon as seen from Saturn on the left and Mercury on the right)
Originally posted by: K.Universe.
^^ The only runt I see is Pink Floyd for misusing astronomical phrases. Science should have been off-limits to these punks :)
As for the extraneous stuff: http://www.wikihow.com/Get-Closure
As for the real stuff: did you guys let my image sink for at least a minute or two? That was hot off the press from NASA. Stunning, isn't it? I made it my wallpaper. Whenever I feel depressed at office, I intend to look at this image, which is probably throughout the day 😆
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