Hind, a woman in her thirties, wailed outside a Cairo hospital: "My brother is dead, Methat is dead! His eyes were filled with blood."
In shock, she clutched at a relative and pleaded: "Please, please get him another doctor, let them try again."
Her sister, Mona Abdel Khaleq, said police shot Methat in the head in front of a police station. "God curse them, we don`t want them," she said of the government.
Inside, doctors and medical students who came to volunteer at the overwhelmed emergency room crowded around a patient pocked by shotgun pellets as other men, their shirts stripped to reveal their wounds, groaned on their beds.
Doctors said they did not have a chance to compile an exact casualty list but estimated that 38 people either arrived dead or succumbed to their wounds during treatment.
They were killed in clashes around Cairo in which thousands of people torched government and ruling party buildings, forcing the government to call in the army in the hope it could restore order.
In the Basateen district, relatives crowded in front of a family mausoleum to bury Mustapha Sharie, who choked to death on Friday when a tear gas canister fired by police lodged into his half opened jacket.
His son, Mohammed, who was with him at the protest, vowed to return to a demonstration at a downtown Cairo square where tens of thousands of people gathered once more on Saturday to demand Mubarak quit.
"I will return," Mohammed said, before his uncle, Emad, interjected: "And we will continue until he leaves the country like Zine El Abidine Ben Ali," referring to the former Tunisian president protesters forced to flee the country earlier this month.
On Friday, angry mobs looted and torched police stations around the country and other buildings belonging to the despised interior ministry, whose security forces are widely accused of torture.
Down the street from the hospital, young men scrummaged through the remains of a burnt down police station, as jostling onlookers who videotaped the scene on their cell phones tried to skirt a large pool of blood outside the station.
Some broke off to follow hundreds of protesters who were marching to join vast crowds downtown defying a military curfew, AFP reported.
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