Mubarak arrives at third trial session on stretcher

Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak on a stretcher for the third session of his trial Monday. Earlier his supporters and opponents clashed near the court outside the police academy in the Cairo suburb where the trial is taking place.

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Riot police intervened to break up both groups.

"We have not abandoned you," the pro-Mubarak protesters chanted, while their rivals shouted, "Punishment, punishment, they killed our children with bullets."

Witnesses were due to testify on the question of who gave the orders for the killing of over 850 protesters in an effort to suppress the revolt that ousted the veteran leader.

The trial is to be held off-camera, unlike the first two sessions which were broadcast live, beaming pictures of Mubarak appearing bound to a stretcher and caged around the world.