CAIRO: Fears mounted of a bloody showdown between supporters and opponents of Egypt’s Islamist President Mohamed Morsi on Friday after one activist was killed in the latest violence to cloud the Arab world’s most populous democracy.

Islamist groups called on their supporters to camp out indefinitely in a Cairo square two days before a planned protest by the mainly secular opposition to demand Morsi’s resignation just a year after he took office.

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