An Irish citizen caught up in the violence in Egypt told family here she was being beaten by security forces as she and her three siblings were removed from a mosque where they had taken refuge from fighting in the street.

Four Irish citizens are among those who have been cleared from a besieged mosque in Cairo.

Gunfire has been heard at a Mosque in Egypt where four Irish citizens are trapped.

At least 37 people have died across Egypt as tens of thousands of Muslim Brotherhood supporters clashed with vigilante residents in the fiercest street battles to engulf Cairo since the country’s Arab Spring uprising.