6:32 am Sat July 27, 2013  Egypt Demonstrations Turn Deadly
Originally published on Sat July 27, 2013 11:59 am    This is
WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. Scott Simon is away. I'm Linda
Wertheimer. In Cairo overnight, Egyptian police fired on
supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi, killing dozens of
people and wounding hundreds more.   UNIDENTIFIED GROUP:
(chanting in foreign language)  WERTHEIMER: At one makeshift
morgue, the names of the dead were read out as volunteers
carried the bodies to waiting ambulances. We go to NPR's Soraya
Sarhaddi Nelson in Cairo for the latest. Soraya, what can you
tell us about this crackdown?  SORAYA SARHADDI NELSON, BYLINE:
Well, it came at the end of basically what you would call a mass
protest that had been called by the military, by the top general
in this country. He was basically seeking a popular mandate for
what apparently the plans are now for the Muslim Brotherhood.
And so depending on who you talk to, just like everything that's
been going on recently, it's ver