Cairo (CNN) - artillery fire and clashes continuing in Cairo on Saturday at the beginning Tahrir square and demonstrations prolonged protesters aimed at pushing the Egyptian military Council of former President Hosni Mubarak to continue.
About 1,000 demonstrators were in and around Tahrir square, at 2: 30 pm Saturday with a crowd of riot police and army soldiers.
The situation quickly turned into chaos as police and soldiers beat demonstrators with batons and tear gas kick.
Demonstrators were seen burning a bus and wear military hats that they had wrenched off the coast of the head of the soldier as gunfire sounded.
Hours later, security forces withdraw from the place, leaving behind the spent casings and, in one place, a pool of blood. Egyptians were left to feel shocked, confused and angry.
"It was a disaster," said Shadi Essam manifesting. "The army attacked us in coordination with the police."
Essam said activists have tried to help dissident military personnel to escape repression. "We have tried to help four of them to flee." We dressed as civilians. ?
The clashes came a day after amassing large crowds of demonstrators on the Tahrir, many of them place in anger against the new military leaders of the Egypt.
After the overthrow of Mubarak in February, the army took control - a wave of popularity for refusing to fire on demonstrators pro-democracy during 18 days of anti-Government protests.
But in the weeks that followed, the Council of 20-man secret came more in addition to the frustration and criticism of different parts of the spectrum policy Egyptian. Critics have complained of violations of human rights and the lack of transparency in the decision-making process of the Council.
Friday, some soldiers joined the protests in a direct challenge to the military leaders of the Egypt. For long intervals, they took to a stage erected on the place crowded and called for the military leaders of the country to be replaced.
"If they really wanted to pursue these corrupt officials they would have done it immediately.". This is why we are here today, "one of the officers who were told Friday protests."
Earlier this week, several army officers took to the internet, recording video statements accusing the President of the Council the power, field marshal Mohammed Tantawi, to protect Mubarak from prosecution and leading a counter-revolutionary movement.
"He should resign." He makes stupid moves. He has not learned errors of the past 60 years. Military must not run countries, "said Mohamed Ibrahim Garib, who makes life import and export of clothing."
The military, issued a statement Saturday morning, accusing a former member of Mubarak a long-National Democratic Party in the "incentive to Tahrir.".
The army announced that it had issued arrest warrants for Member of Parliament for the NPD Ibrahim Kamel and several of his associates after accusing him of being "present in Tahrir square after the curfew as thugs and frighten citizens."CNN Ivan Watson and Mohamed Fadel Fahmy contributed to this report
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