Cairo violence

PROTESTERS and security forces fought in Cairo yesterday, the third day of clashes that have killed 10 people and exposed rifts over the army’s role as it manages Egypt’s promised transition from military to civilian rule.

Soldiers and police manned barriers on some streets around Tahrir Square, the hub of the uprising that ousted president Hosni Mubarak and again convulsed by violence as protesters demand the generals who took charge in February quit power.