about. bank machines are out of money or been broken into by looters, gas stations are shut. let s quickly recap what else we know. protesters returning to the streets in some places in some places for the sixth straight day of anti-government demonstrations. protests getting more dangerous with dozens killed the past two days. mostly the bloodshed has come at the hands of the police. those same police have largely abandoned the streets. they are being replaced in some places by tanks and soldiers. adding to the chaos, more than 1,000 escaped prison inmates. people around cairo are asking the army to protect them criminals inside the city. people have taken they have taken up arms themselves, sticks, even samurai swords, trying to protect their neighborhoods from looters. protesters are demanding many changes in the government, hosni
the police principally. some government institutions, the rest of the city untouched. today, we re not seeing any fires, but, again, it s difficult to underestimate how much they anger their company to surface. it really is a city that builds on the edge of the moment. nic robertson from alexandria, egypt. thank you. nic was talking about anger. some are taking advantage of the chaos. a group of thugs stormed a museum, ripping the heads off mummies and tossing relics onto the ground. that particular museum is home to the relics of king tut. officials say nothing that turns out to have been missing, but the message is clear, nothing is offlimited. add to the equation, a large group of escaped inmates. cnn s wolf blitzer talked to the
we found that out ourselves this morning. but they are not trying to stop whatever people want to do themselves. they are just sitting in front of government buildings. nic, it s john mann. are you telling us about police stations that have been torched. we have seen fires around alexandria. are the fires still burning? reporter: at this time, no. it is a very uneasy situation, where we are in the center of the city and where we ve been driving around, we haven t seen any fires. we re seeing people trying to clear up some of the debris from the fighting on friday. there are still rocks flying on the side of the streets and piles of rubble in the middle of the road. and indeed many of the police, large trucks they use to transport the police on friday, those have burned on the street corners and littering the center of the city. and the violence was directed at
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the city center as we just did. when you move away from the area, there is some presence of the army on the streets outside government buildings, he very quickly run into checkpoints set up by young men, some of them carrying metal bars, wooden sticks, machetes. they are stopping traffic. it s not quite clear what they are looking for or who they are looking for perhaps, but it is a case here of the crowd and the young men taking control, taking law and order into their own hands. it is somewhat chaotic situation, a lot of the shops in the center of the city remain shut. the gold district is completely shuttered. the vegetable market is working, but it s a very tense situation as people wait to see what will happen here exactly. does the military, nic, appear to be losing patience with the protesters? the protesters have been supporting the military and even