At least seven people have died in overnight clashes between supporters of ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, opponents and security forces, officials said.
Mohamed Sultan, the head of Egypt's emergency services, said more than 260 people were injured and more than 400 arrested in the latest eruption of violence since the military unseated Mr Morsi, just a year after he was elected.
Two people were killed at a bridge in in the Ramses area near Tahrir Square in Cairo, where security forces reportedly fired tear gas to drive the protesters back.
The protesters responded by hurling rocks at the security forces, triggering fresh volleys of tear gas, with clashes continuing in adjacent Ramses Square and elsewhere late into the night.
Five more people died in the capital's Giza district, Mr Sultan said.
Security officials said four of the deaths came as Morsi supporters staging a sit-in near the main Cairo university campus clashed with residents of the area.
Thousands of supporters of the former president were calling for him to be reinstated.
Earlier reports said police had fired tear gas at the protesters and demonstrators had retaliated by throwing rocks back at police.
Many protesters were treatment at a makeshift ward set up to deal with casualties.
The deputy president of Mr Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood's political party, Essam el Erian, had stressed the protests and sit-ins must remain peaceful.
"The fact that our protests are peaceful is what makes them powerful," he said.
"We will remain peaceful in our path to continue the January 25 revolution and we will not use violence to respond to the violence that targets us."
The clashes came as US Under Secretary of State Bill Burns held talks in Cairo with Egypt's interim president Adli Mansour about the transition plan put forward by the new leadership.
It was the first violence in the Egyptian capital since more than 50 pro-Morsi demonstrators were shot dead outside an elite military headquarters on Monday of last week.
The latest deaths bring to more than 100 the number of people killed in Egypt since the coup.
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