Summary Cabinet Tuesday ordered authorities to remove Muslim Brotherhood from list of approved NGOs.
CAIRO (AFP) - The death toll from weekend clashes between Islamists and police has reached 57, a senior Egyptian health ministry official told AFP on Tuesday.
Khaled al-Khatib said that 48 people died in Cairo and nine in other parts of the country.
Authorities had previously given a toll of 51.
Khatib said a total of 391 people had been injured throughout the country.
Clashes erupted on Sunday as supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi tried to galvanise protests around the country but were dispersed by police.
In Cairo, they tried to march towards a strategic square where supporters of the military were marking the 40th anniversary of the Arab-Israeli war.
Tahrir Square is highly symbolic for both supporters and opponents of the Islamist leader.
Morsi was ousted by the military on July 3 and since then his supporters have regularly tried to stage protests against the army. He is being held at an unknown location.
On Monday, suspected militants killed nine people in attacks across Egypt.
Egypt s cabinet on Tuesday ordered authorities to remove the Muslim Brotherhood from the list of approved non-governmental organisations following a judicial order, state media reported.
The move comes after an Egyptian court last month banned the Muslim Brotherhood from operating and ordered its assets seized, amid a massive crackdown on the group following the military ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi.
In its September 23 ruling, the court had also banned "any institution branching out from or belonging to the Brotherhood".
Morsi was Egypt s first democratically elected president but his turbulent one year rule came to an abrupt end when the military heeded the call of millions of Egyptians to oust him on July 3.
His supporters have since taken to the streets to denounce what they say is a violation of democratic principles.
But the army-installed authorities have pressed ahead with a massive campaign which has seen at least 1,000 Muslim Brotherhood supporters killed and around 2,000 jailed, including the top leadership.
Morsi, who belongs to the Muslim Brotherhood, has been detained at an unknown location since his ouster.
Egypt has been gripped by unrest since the 2011 uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak, but violence has sharply increased since Morsi was deposed.
On Sunday, at least 57 people were killed in clashes between security forces and Morsi supporters and nearly 400 were injured.
