Egyptian official media Al Ahram has reported that two people were killed and 35 injuries in the clashes between young demonstrators and security forces and the police in the early hours of today in the western governorate of Al-Wadi Al-Gadeed, which is 500 kilometers south of Cairo. The confrontations started outside the police station. Demonstrators were able to set the police station on fire, destroying it, and the adjoining prison. The fires destroyed all paper records held at the fire department, prosecutor's office and most of the traffic violation case files. The report said that the confrontations continued with intensity, fuelled by the police's use of live ammunition against the demonstrators. The demonstrations are the first large ones against the regime in the normally quiet Al-Wadi Al-Gadeed governorate, 500 kilometers south of Cairo.