At least three demonstrators have been killed after Egyptian security forces opened fire on a march near where deposed Egyptian President Mursi is being held.
A witness said he saw several people fall to the ground, wounded by shotgun pellets.
Security forces were cordoning the Republican Guard barracks but it was not immediately clear who had opened fire.
Supporters of Mr Mursi were to rally today to express their outrage at his overthrow by the army.
They have rejected a planned interim government backed by their liberal opponents.
Egyptian troops did not open fire on supporters, an army spokesman said, after security sources said the three were shot dead by security forces.
The spokesman said soldiers were using only blank rounds and teargas.
It was unclear whether security forces other than the army were present.
Dozens of people were wounded in clashes in Mr Mursi's home city yesterday, raising fears of more of the violence in which several dozen have died in the past month.
There were also militant attacks in the Sinai peninsula.
How the army deals with trouble will help determine future support for Egypt from the US and other international powers.
Concern that the generals have carried out a military coup against Egypt's first-ever freely elected leader has left the US reviewing the €1.2bn in military and civilian aid it annually gives Egypt.
The planned protests have the slogan "Friday of Rejection".
A military source said: "We will continue to secure the places of protest with troops, and jets if necessary, to make sure the pro- and anti-Mursi demonstrators don't confront each other.
"We will let them demonstrate and go where they want."
Mr Mursi's political opponents insist there was no coup. Rather, the army heeded the "will of the people" in forcing the president out.
Millions rallied on Sunday to protest at a collapsing economy and political deadlock, in which Mr Mursi had failed to build a broad consensus after a year in office.
Egyptian armed forces command issued a late-night statement guaranteeing rights to protest and free expression and pledging not to pursue arbitrary measures against any political group.
The uncontroversial phrasing belied a busy 24 hours since the military chief suspended the constitution, detained Mr Mursi and oversaw the swearing in of the chief justice of the constitutional court as Egypt's interim head of state.
In addition to Mr Mursi, several senior figures in his Muslim Brotherhood were arrested, security sources said.
Prosecutors were investigating various charges, including incitement to violence and, in the case of Mr Mursi himself, insulting the judiciary.
Television channels owned by or seen as sympathetic to the Brotherhood were unceremoniously taken off air.
The state printer did not run off its party newspaper yesterday.
In Zagazig, the Nile Delta city where Mr Mursi has a family home, 80 people were injured.
Witnesses said the army moved in to seal the area after an attack on pro-Mursi protesters by men on motorcycles led to clashes with sticks, knives and bottles.
For a movement that has been banned and politically oppressed for most of its 85-year history, such developments have reinforced impressions among the Islamists that a "deep state", once loyal to fallen autocrat Hosni Mubarak and his army-backed predecessors, is still determined to crush it.
Egypt's charge d'affaires Ahmed Mostafa has said that the military did not take power for itself following the ousting of Mr Mursi.
Speaking on RTÉ's Morning Ireland, he said that military intervention came following repeated calls from the Egyptian people and the events of the past week did not resemble a coup.
However, Mr Mostafa refused to say whether Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore was "wrong" in describing events in Egypt as a "coup".
Mr Mostafa re-assured tourists that they would still be safe should they decide to travel to Egypt.
He said most tourist areas in Egypt were "quite safe and away from the turmoil".
Mr Mostafa advised tourists to exercise caution and not participate in the demonstrations in places such as Tahrir Square.
However, he said visitors to Egypt are often given "special treatment" and the situation in Egypt was not as volatile as some other countries.
Elsewhere, a member of Mr Mursi's Freedom and Justice Party has said Egypt's economic difficulties are no excuse for ousting the President from power.
Speaking on RTÉ's Today with Pat Kenny, Islam Abdel-Rahman of the Freedom and Justice Party said the slow pace of state and institutional reform since the ousting of President Hosi Mubarak in 2011 was the primary reason behind Wednesday's military coup.
Mr Rahman said ex-president Mursi, the Freedom and Justice Party and the affiliate Muslim Brotherhood had tried their best to reform Egypt.
'The President had been struggling to reform the country. We were doing our best to reform the country and the state institutions. However, as usual and as expected - very serious political and economical challenges arrived', he said.
However, he said the country's economic strife was no justification for the ousting of President Mursi considering many countries in the European Union, such as Ireland, had also encountered economic difficulties.
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