Outside the capital, the violence spread to previously unaffected towns, he adds.
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No curfew has been imposed in the capital Cairo, despite violence that continued on Monday with one man killed by gunfire near Tahrir Square.
The Met's Operation Malone team is investigating the violence in the capital that day.
The Met Police has made 820 arrests and charged 279 people in connection with violence in the capital.
The Iraqi capital's plague of violence continued Tuesday with at least three killings, including that of a judge, authorities said.
After three days of street violence, the capital Tunis was relatively quiet Sunday, under the watchful eye of riot police.
The BBC's Naziru Mikailu in Abuja, Nigeria's capital, said the latest violence started in Benin on Monday when a group attacked a mosque, leaving 10 people injured.
As ethnic violence erupted in the Xinjiang capital of Urumqi last week, the magazine sent two reporters, whose spot-news coverage described the violence and damage but, in their early reporting, did not venture into examining underlying causes of the unrest.
In the early months of the uprising Aleppo, Syria's commercial capital, was largely spared the violence.
But a sustained assault by rebels earlier this month on the capital saw a dramatic upsurge in violence in Damascus.
NAIROBI, Kenya (CNN) -- Tear gas was fired Wednesday on people taking part in a prayer march sparking more post-election violence in the Kenyan capital.
Police have been sent to guard highways north and south of the capital, Quito, but no violence has been reported, according to the Reuters news agency.
In 2006, members of the First Command of the Capital gang unleashed a wave of violence and riots in almost all of Sao Paulo's prisons to prevent being transferred.
This chart also displays the density of sectarian incidents in various Baghdad neighborhoods, and it both reflects the progress made in reducing ethno-sectarian violence in the Iraqi capital, and identifies the areas that remain the most challenging.
The last time electoral issues were on the agenda, in November, the capital, Jakarta, was rocked by violence.
Both brought rampant corruption, economic and social degradation, sectarian violence, flight of foreign capital and abject poverty to their nation.
But five major mosques near the center of Sunday's violence in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, were closed Friday morning, Xinhua said.
People are abandoning their homes in Mogadishu and fleeing to the camp because of the violence and danger in the capital, Weir said.
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The caucus is "very concerned" that violence not sweep through the capital of Port-au-Prince and that the democratic process "is not further compromised, " he said.
Before arriving in the United States a decade ago, the brothers lived briefly in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, a neighboring, violence-wracked Russian province where their father resides.
The capital is supplied by its suburbs but the violence and the shutdown of some of the factories there have caused shortages.
The violence occurred in Sofia, the capital, when riot police struggled to keep demonstrators away from public buildings, but no injuries were immediately reported.
He spoke to CNN as an uneasy calm hung over the Kenyan capital Friday, after almost a week of violence that, according to government figures, has left at least 300 people dead and up to 75, 000 people internally displaced.
This, rather than the antics of remote politicians in the capital, may teach a country formerly run by violence to start running itself instead.
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The BBC's Will Grant in Mexico City says shootings in public spaces in broad daylight remain rare in the capital, which has been largely insulated from the violence seen elsewhere in the country.
The previous large outbreak of unrest, an explosion of inter-ethnic violence in July 2009 in Urumqi, the regional capital, left some 200 dead.
Violence then flared separately in other parts of the capital.
Peace hopes raised by a ceasefire called by ETA in September 1998 were dampened after ETA resumed its violence with a car bomb in Madrid, the capital.
And violence wasn't limited to Iraq's capital -- Anbar province's governor escaped the latest apparent attempt to assassinate him when bombs exploded Thursday near his convoy in Ramadi and injured four of his bodyguards, police said.
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