CAIRO (AA) – Minor clashes broke out between supporters and opponents of ousted president Mohamed Morsi in several Egyptian universities on Tuesday.
Verbal skirmishes erupted between pro- and anti-Morsi students at Cairo University before administrative security personnel intervened to end the clashes.
Security forces fired teargas and birdshots to disperse students trying to stage a protest outside the university campus, according to an Anadolu Agency.
Pro-democracy students also staged fresh protests at Egypt's Al-Azhar University on Tuesday, one day after violent clashes with police.
Students besieged the university's administrative building and staged demonstrations outside the campus.
Protesters flashed the now-iconic bright yellow "Rabaa sign" in memory of the hundreds of demonstrators killed in mid-August during the violent dispersal of pro-Morsi sit-ins.
In the Nile Delta city of Damanhour, pro-Morsi female students were attacked by "thugs" during a rally at Azhar's Islamic Studies Faculty.
Clashes were also reported between pro-Morsi and pro-military students at the University of Menoufiya.
Skirmishes also broke out between pro-Morsi professors and staffers after the former chanted anti-military slogans.
Minor clashes were also reported in the Minya and Beni Sueif universities.
In the Nile Delta province of Sharqiya, students besieged the dean of the Engineering Faculty at Zagaqiy University in protest at the dismissal of two students on claims of inciting violence.
Pro-democracy demonstrators describe Morsi's July 3 ouster by the army as an unconstitutional military coup.
