At least one was killed and three were injured on Friday in Kafr El-Sheikh province in Egypt, about 125 km north of the capital Cairo, during clashes between security forces and protesters supporting ousted Islamist President Mohamed Morsi.

"One was killed and three were injured in Kafr El-Sheikh province during the gatherings in a marketplace at the city of Baltim," the Health Ministry said in an initial statement, noting the three injured were sent to the city's central hospital.

A dozen of pro-Morsi protesters were arrested during their Friday's anti-government marches in Cairo, Fayoum and Alexandria after the police confronted them for shouting slogans against the police and the military-oriented leadership.

Since Morsi's removal by the military in July, 2013 and the following crackdown on his loyalists that left about 1,000 killed and thousands more arrested, supporters of the ousted president have been holding weekly protests denouncing his removal as "a coup," yet the protests have been getting smaller due to massive security campaigns.

Meanwhile, extremist groups killed hundreds through terrorist attacks against police and military personnel and premises in the Sinai Peninsula and other provinces across the country over the past year in response to Morsi's removal and the crackdown on his loyalists.

The Muslim Brotherhood group, most of whose members are in custody including Morsi himself, has been blacklisted by the Egyptian authorities as a terrorist group and its members were also banned by a court ruling from running for presidential and parliamentary elections.

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