Death toll from Egypt violence rises to 638

Friday, August 16, 2013

CAIRO -- As the death toll soared past 600 on Thursday, weeping relatives in search of loved ones uncovered the faces of the bloodied dead in a Cairo mosque near the flattened epicenter of Islamist support for ousted President Mohammed Morsi.

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