Egypt police call on pro-Morsi protesters to disperse

CAIRO: Egypt's interior ministry urged supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi on Thursday to leave their Cairo protest camps, promising them a "safe exit."

The ministry "calls on those in Rabaa al-Adawiya and Nahda squares to let reason and the national interest prevail, and to quickly leave," it said in a statement, a day after the government tasked it with ending the protests.

The ministry "pledges a safe exit and complete protection to whomever responds to this appeal," the statement added. (AFP)