Pro-Morsi protester killed in Egypt's Minya as small blast hits Cairo

A supporter of ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi was killed late Thursday as security forces dispersed a pro-Morsi protest in the southern province of Minya, eyewitnesses said.

Mahmoud Taha Tolba, 25, was shot in the back, as security forces broke up a protest staged by Morsi supporters in Dalga village, the witnesses said.

Marches in support of the Muslim Brotherhood, to which Morsi belongs, were also held in the provinces of Giza, Beni Sueif and Fayoum, Turkish Anadolu Agency reported.

Thursday also saw a small homemade bomb rock the Cairo subway, with two people reportedly injured in the blast.

The bomb detonated as the train passed by a police station in Matariya district, the source said.

The bomb is the latest in a line of attacks targeting the Cairo subway.  

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but Egyptian authorities usually point the finger at the Muslim Brotherhood.

The group was dubbed a "terrorist" organisation after a deadly bomb blast outside a Nile Delta security headquarters late last year - an act swiftly condemned by the Brotherhood, which denies any connections to terrorism.

However, since Morsi’s oust in July last year, the new military-backed authorities have crackdown hard on Brotherhood supporters, imprisoning tens of thousands and sentencing hundreds to death in controversial group trials.