* Cabinet submits its resignation to the ruling military council
* Doctors seeing '80 casualties and hour' in makeshift hospital stations
* Soldiers and police burn tents and hit crowd with truncheons
* Social networks again linking protesters to outside world
The death toll in the battle for Cairo’s Tahrir Square rose to 33 yesterday as fighting between protesters and the police escalated sharply.
Police fired tear-gas and plastic bullets as demonstrators calling for Egypt’s army rulers to quit hurled stones and rocks from behind makeshift barricades.
Many of those who died succumbed to bullet wounds, but although protesters have brandished bullet casings, police deny using live ammunition. It was the third consecutive day of street battles which have left more than 1,700 people injured and threaten to spiral out of control.
Extensive damage: Smashed windows, burning buildings and streets strewn with debris are a common sight in the streets surrounding Tahrir Square as violence continues
Flashpoint: A riot policeman, armed with a rubber-bullet-firing shotgun, confronts rock-throwing demonstrators on the streets of Cairo yesterday
Before the dawn: Tahrir Square, centre of the Egyptian revolution and now the focus of renewed demonstrations. At least 22 protesters have been killed and more than 1,700 injured
Daylight: Riot police have largely secured the square today, but confrontation between protesters and police is continuing in surrounding streets
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