US citizen killed in Egypt identified as Jewish college student.

US citizen killed in Egypt identified as Jewish college student.HT: TimesOfIsrael.

21-year-old Andrew Pochter, an intern at an education NGO, attacked in Alexandria as protesters torch ruling party headquarters in the city.

Two people were killed and over 85 have been injured across Egypt on Friday during clashes between supporters and opponents of the country’s Islamist president.

One of the two people killed in the clashes was a US citizen identified as Jewish 21-year-old Kenyon College student Andrew Driscoll Pochter, of Chevy Chase, Maryland. Originally reported to have been an employee of the American cultural center in Alexandria, Pochter was later identified as an intern at AMIDEAST, a nonprofit organization devoted to promoting education in the Middle East and North Africa.

“Our beloved 21-year-old son and brother Andrew Driscoll Pochter went to Alexandria for the summer, to teach English to 7 and 8 year old Egyptian children and to improve his Arabic. He was looking forward to returning to Kenyon College for his junior year and to spending his spring semester in Jordan,” Pochter’s parents told CNN.

“As we understand it, he was witnessing the protest as a bystander and was stabbed by a protester. He went to Egypt because he cared profoundly about the Middle East, and he planned to live and work there in the pursuit of peace and understanding. Andrew was a wonderful young man looking for new experiences in the world and finding ways to share his talents while he learned. Andrew cared deeply about his family and his friends. We won’t have any further comment and ask for privacy now at this difficult time for the family.”

A medical official said the American died of gunshot wounds at a hospital. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press.

In his Friday prayer sermon, the cleric of Rabia el-Adawiya warned that if Morsi is ousted “there will be no president for the country” and Egypt will descend into “opposition hell.”

Outside in the street, the Islamists chanted religious slogans. “It is for God, not for position or power,” they shouted. “Raise your voice strong, Egyptian: Islamic Shariah.” Many wore green headbands with the slogans of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Across the city, thousands of Morsi opponents massed in Cairo’s central Tahrir Square, shouting for the president to “leave, leave.” Violence erupted in several parts of the Delta, north of Cairo.Read the full story here.