Photographs and video recorded before the police moved in seemed to show protesters, including Ms. Sabbagh, standing peacefully outside the Air France-KLM office in Talaat Harb Square, near Tahrir. As officers charged at the protesters, guns drawn, shots rang out and Ms. Sabbagh fell to the pavement.
pellets at a handful of socialist activists marching to Tahrir Square with flowers to commemorate the hundreds of demonstrators killed there duringthe revolution that began on Jan. 25, 2011, witnesses said.
The protester, Shaimaa al-Sabbagh, was shot at close range and died a short time later, according to a statement from the organizers of the march reported by Aswat Masriya, a local news site supported by the Thomson Reuters foundation.
News photographs taken before the march was attacked showed the protesters holding a wreath of flowers and a banner that read: “The fourth anniversary of the martyrs who died during the January 25 revolution.”
Egyptian activists shared graphic images of Ms. Sabbagh’s last moments on social networks, including local news photographs and witness video posted on YouTube by the state-owned Middle East News Agency.
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