Overnight clashes in Cairo between supporters and opponents of Egypt's Islamist leader have killed at least five people, according to state television.

Opponents of President Mohammed Morsi have set fire to offices of his Muslim Brotherhood in several Egyptian cities, clashing with his supporters after the Islamist leader assumed sweeping new powers.

Seventy-three people were killed and at least 1,000 injured on Wednesday after a soccer pitch invasion in the Egyptian city of Port Said, in what a minister called the biggest disaster in the nation’s soccer history.

Egyptians are converging on Cairo’s central Tahrir Square in response to a call for a so-called million-man march as protests against the country’s military rulers enter a fourth day.

EGYPTIAN police fought protesters in two cities in eastern Egypt yesterday and Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohamed ElBaradei headed back to the country to join demonstrators trying to oust President Hosni Mubarak.

Three Egyptian brothers died in the explosion of a left-over land mine they were toying with near Egypt’s Suez Canal, hospital officials said today.

WIDESPREAD violence marred the second round of Egypt’s parliamentary vote yesterday, with police saying a campaign worker was shot and killed in Alexandria and witnesses reporting scores of injuries.