Egypt's health ministry has said that 95 people had been killed in a police raid on supporters of deposed President Mohammed Morsi at a Cairo protest camp and clashes nationwide.
"The dead are both from police and civilians. We are waiting to get more details," said the ministry's spokesman, Hamdi Abdel Karim, adding that 874 people had been wounded.
Medical workers at one hospital in Cairo said the death toll from the crackdown stands at 60.
Egypt's Health Ministry said six members of the security forces were killed during the operation.
Sky News has reported that a cameraman working for the organisation was killed during the violence.
Cameraman Mick Deane, 61, had worked for the BSkyB-owned news channel for 15 years, based in Washington and then Jerusalem. He was married with two sons.
Egypt's presidency has announced a State of Emergency across the country, which will last for one month.
The Muslim Brotherhood has claimed that up to 300 people had been killed.
There have been reports that live ammunition is being used as well as tear gas.
State media also said special forces from the army have joined police in the operation.
A number of other people have been killed in clashes in other Egyptian cities as news of the crackdown in Cairo spread.
Most of the fatalities in Cairo are believed to have been at Rabaa al-Adawiya where thousands of supporters of Mr Mursi have staged a six-week sit-in.
A second camp near Cairo University was swiftly cleared early this morning.
The operation began just after dawn local time with helicopters hovering over the camps.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has condemned violence used by Egyptian security forces.
While the United Nations was still gathering information, it appeared that hundreds of people were killed or wounded in clashes between security forces and demonstrators, according to a statement by the secretary-general's spokesperson.
Gunfire rang out as protesters, among them women and children, fled Rabaa, and clouds of black smoke rose into the air.
In the streets around the Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque, riot police wearing gas masks crouched behind armoured vehicles, tear gas hung in the air and burning tyres sent plumes of black smoke into the sky.
The government issued a statement saying security forces had showed the "utmost degree of self-restraint", reflected in low casualties compared to the number of people "and the volume of weapons and violence directed against the security forces".
A witness said soldiers fired at protesters as they tried to enter the besieged Rabaa camp in solidarity with pro-Mursi supporters.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan has called on the UN Security Council and the Arab League to stop what he called a "massacre" in Egypt.
At least 20 people were shot in the legs while television pictures showed security forces shooting from nearby rooftops.
The operation came after international efforts failed to mediate an end to the political standoff between Mr Mursi's supporters and the army-backed government which took power on 3 July.
More than 300 people have already died in political violence since Mr Mursi's overthrow, including dozens of supporters killed by security forces in two separate earlier incidents in Cairo.
The unrest spread beyond the capital today, with the Nile Delta cities of Minya and Assiut also rocked by violence.
At least 17 people were killed in the province of Fayoum, south of Cairo, a hospital official said, following fighting at police stations between pro-Mursi supporters and security forces.
Five people are reported to have died in Suez after an attempt by pro-Mursi supporters to storm government buildings.
Egypt has been convulsed by political and economic turmoil since a 2011 uprising that ended 30 years of autocratic rule by President Hosni Mubarak.
Mr Mursi became Egypt's first freely elected leader in June 2012, but failed to tackle deep economic malaise and worried many Egyptians with apparent efforts to tighten Islamist rule.
Liberals and young Egyptians staged huge rallies demanding that he resign, and the army said it removed him in response to the will of the people.
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