Cairo ( CNN ) -- Demonstrators clashed with police outside the Interior Ministry in Cairo on Sunday as anger mounts over a deadly stampede at a soccer match that killed dozens last week . Protesters outside the ministry threw rocks at police , who responded with tear gas . Fires erupted at a nearby shopping center while more than 200 women demonstrated outside parliament , chanting anti-military slogans and demanding control of the country be handed over to civilian power . Protests have rocked Egypt 's capital since a riot erupted at a soccer match in Port Said city Wednesday , killing more than 80 . Rival fans battled with rocks and chairs , with a crush of bodies suffocating as crowds attempted to flee and found their escape blocked by a locked steel gate , survivors said . After the riots , throngs of angry protesters rallied in the streets across Egypt , demanding that the military-led government make reforms and improve security . `` Egypt is facing a dangerous situation that is not simple to deal with , '' Deputy Interior Minister Gen. Ahmed Gamal El Din said in a statement Sunday . More than 200 security forces have been injured as clashes broke out nationwide , he said . In Suez , some fired at police with machine guns , he said . Prisoners were at large after attacks on police stations . At least 40 protesters have been arrested nationwide . Every time `` we advance and things start settling , something happens , '' he said . But some protesters argued that police were behind the violence , firing on protesters with gas and live ammunition to retaliate . `` They are spreading false slogans to kill the revolution , '' said a statement from the Egyptian Revolutionary Alliance , a bloc of secular and democratic opposition groups . The alliance staged a protest outside the general prosecutor 's office Sunday , calling for his removal from the post and accusing of him of negligence in trials of former President Hosni Mubarak and his aides . Meanwhile , the co-founder of the April 6 Youth Movement who was a major participant in the protests to topple Hosni Mubarak was hospitalized Saturday with a skull fracture , according to a friend . Ahmed Maher was hit in the head with a heavy object while trying to negotiate an end to the latest protests outside the tax ministry , said Waleed Rashed , the co-founder of the youth group . It was not immediately clear who was responsible for his injury . CNN could not immediately confirm Rashed 's claim . The military-led government has said that the country is undergoing a `` sensitive and difficult time that is considered the most dangerous '' and crucial to the nation 's history . `` The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has always reiterated to the military forces that peaceful protests are a right to all people to state their demands , '' it said in a recent statement .
Official : `` Egypt is facing a dangerous situation that is not simple to deal with '' More than 200 security forces injured in clashes , deputy minister says . In Cairo , demonstrators throw rocks at police , who respond with tear gas . A prominent anti-Mubarak protester is injured , associate says .