Egyptian protesters have set fire to a police station in the city of Port Said as US Secretary of State John Kerry lands in the capital, Cairo.

Egypt’s Interior Ministry said in a statement on Saturday that about 500 protesters hurled stones and petrol bombs at the police station in the Suez Canal city of Port Said, setting it ablaze.

According to reports, outraged protesters also prevented fire engines from reaching the burning building.


Earlier in the day, at least one person was killed and dozens wounded in clashes that erupted between police and protesters in Egypt's Nile Delta city of Mansura.

Meanwhile, Kerry has also arrived in Cairo for talks with Egypt’s leaders, opposition and business people amid political and economic turmoil in the North African country.

This is while Egyptian opposition figures, including Hamdeen Sabahi and Mohamed ElBaradei of the National Salvation Front (NSF), turned down invitations to meet Kerry after Washington's call for them to reconsider a boycott of next month's parliamentary polls.

Egypt’s parliamentary elections come at a time when unrest, insecurity, and an economic crisis plague the North African country.

The country has been gripped by nationwide unrest in recent months. Demonstrators want Morsi to realize the goals of the revolution that toppled former dictator Hosni Mubarak in 2011.