More deaths and injuries as Protest Continues in Egypt.

At least four people have been killed and over 300 persons injured in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, as supporters and opponents of President Mohamed Morsi clashed near the presidential palace.
Protests and fighting continue into the early morning on Thursday with fires burning in the streets and the opposing sides throwing stones and petrol bombs at each other.

Morsi's opponents chanted,"No to dictatorship,", while their rivals chanted: "Defending Morsi is defending Islam."

Riot police were sent in to break up the violence on Wednesday, in which over 350 people were injured.

The opposition is demanding that the president withdraw a decree giving him absolute powers and shelve a disputed draft constitution that the assembly passed hurriedly last week.

Hundreds of protesters remained in the streets before dawn on Thursday, but that most of Morsi's opponents had retreated.

A small group of opposition activists had been camped outside the palace since Tuesday night, when tens of thousands rallied against the presidential decree.

Supporters of Morsi on the other hand marched to the palace on Wednesday and tore down the opposition's tents. Witnesses said they threw stones and used clubs to attack demonstrators.

Thirty-two people were arrested on Wednesday, according to a statement from the interior ministry.

Protests spread to other cities, and offices of Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood in Ismailia and Suez were torched.

Both sides blamed the other for starting the clashes: Opposition leaders said Morsi was responsible for the bloodshed, while senior Brotherhood officials accused the opposition of "inciting violence"

Meanwhile, Morsi's prime minister, Hisham Qandil, issued a brief statement calling for calm "to give the opportunity for the efforts being made now to begin a national dialogue" as the president remains out of public view.