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Hundreds of citizens stormed and smashed the offices of the police and private security at a south Cairo underground metro station Wednesday night after security assaulted a lawyer, El-Badeel reports.

Security personnel in the Dar Essalam Metro Station with the help of two Police Corporals beat a lawyer till he passed out. The citizens, thinking the lawyer was dead, stormed and destroyed the offices of the police, private security, station manager and the cashiers. Also the demonstrators took down Hosni Mubarak’s picture hung on the wall of the police office, and stepped on it Mahalla-style.

Those interviewed in El-Badeel article complained of mistreatment on the hands of security and station officials, and said the latter were regularly harassing the women passengers.