"President Mubarak has resigned." The statement noted the Vice President Omar Suleiman, who announced that military forces will take over power.
The announcement on state television came as hundreds of thousands of anti-government protesters spread to all over Cairo and other Egyptian cities, after Mubarak refused their demands for the immediate resignation, reported voanews.
Direct mass cheering. The masses began to gather after Friday prayers in several areas of Cairo and major cities of Egypt. Military deployed while tens of thousands of demonstrators packed the Tahrir Square, Cairo. The demonstrators who were shouting waving Egyptian flags as they gathered there.
Protesters also gathered around the television and state radio building, and the presidential palace in Heliopolis, on the outskirts of Cairo. Anti-Mubarak demonstrators thronged also other locations, including Alexandria and the outside government buildings in Suez.
Various news organizations quoted officials as saying Mubarak left Cairo to his residence in Sharm el-Sheik, the Red Sea resort town.
Egyptian military has supported the transfer of power from President Mubarak to the Vice President Suleiman and called for the situation back to normal in the Egyptian capital. The military released a statement on Friday after a meeting of the Supreme Council, on the day on which the protest organizers memperkirakanakan biggest demonstration since the start of the ongoing upheaval people last month.
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