KATHMANDU, AUGUST 14 - Egyptian security forces have stormed two protest camps occupied by supporters of deposed president Mohammed Morsi in Cairo, with reports of many killed.Witnesses said they saw at least 40 bodies, but the Muslim Brotherhood says hundreds died.Armoured bulldozers moved deep into the main camp outside the eastern Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque.Officials say the other protest camp, at Nahda Square, has also been cleared.

Graphic accounts of bloodshed emerged from the protest camps as reporters described wounded protesters being treated alongside the dead in makeshift field hospitals.There were also reports of violence in other parts of Egypt.It is still unclear how many casualties were caught up in the two Cairo operations.

Figures differ widely and have been impossible to verify independently.Western journalists said they saw at least 40 bodies in a makeshift morgue at the protest site at the Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque.The health ministry has issued an official death toll of 23 at both sit-ins, including six policemen.Ikhwanonline, the website of the Muslim Brotherhood, which supports the protests, says more than 800 were killed.