More Cairo protests after police suspended

CAIRO, July 10 (UPI) -- There were more protests in Cairo after Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf ordered the suspension of all police officers accused of killing demonstrators.

In a live address on state television, Sharaf said Saturday he ordered the suspension "as a matter of urgency to the minister of interior."

The New York Times reported the suspension process would begin immediately.

Government troops fired on demonstrators calling for the ouster of former President Hosni Mubarak, but the order suspending police officers suspected of killing demonstrators was met with disdain by anti-government dissidents.

The announcement came a day after large rallies rattled Egypt, with thousands of protesters converging on Cairo's Tahrir Square, where the movement to oust Mubarak began.

Al-Masry Al-Youm said the demonstrators' first response to Saturday's televised address by Sharaf was to block the entrance to the Mugamma, a large administrative building in Tahrir Square.

Protesters said Sharaf's actions came too slowly and too late.