CAIRO: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi told the interior minister on Friday to hold any policeman who attacks citizens to account and to submit proposals to parliament to achieve this goal, the presidency said, as anger mounts over alleged police brutality.

The meeting came a day after a police officer shot dead a man in the street, angering hundreds of people who protested in front of the Cairo security directorate.

A statement from the directorate said the policeman had shot dead a driver after an argument and was forced to flee a mob of local people who attempted to catch and kill him. Police later found the policeman.

Last week, thousands of doctors held a rare protest against police they say beat two doctors at a Cairo hospital for refusing to falsify medical records.