The Malawi National Museum in the Upper Egyptian city of Minya was severly damaged and looted by rioters during deadly clashes that erupted across the country.
During Wednesday’s clashes, pro-Morsi protesters allegedly broke into the museum property, adjacent to the town police station and the Malawi council building, and announced their sit-in in the museum’s garden, said the antiquities ministry in a statement issued on Thursday.
Security guards were beaten and injured by some protesters who were attempting to break into the museum building, a security guard who preferred to remain anonymous told Ahram Online.
The pro-Morsi protesters tore down the museum’s internal gate and broke into its halls, damaging and stealing some of its treasured artefacts. The looters also break down the museum surveillance cameras and robbed some of the stationary of the museum administrative department, according to the statement.
No police were reportedly present at the museum, said the same anonymous source.
"It is a great loss and I am really saddened by what has happened to such a museum," Minister of State of Antiquities Mohamed Ibrahim told Ahram Online.
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