Egyptians have begun voting in a two-day presidential election after three years of political turmoil which has seen hundreds killed in clashes SIA reports quoting the Sky news.
Polling stations opened on Monday morning across the country for the 53 million registered voters.
Former army chief Abdel Fattah al Sisi is expected to win comfortably after he deposed the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi last July. His only rival, left-wing politician Hamdeen Sabahi, finished third in the last presidential election in 2012.
The Egyptian military and police have been deployed heavily to safeguard polling stations across the country. The presidential poll will be followed by parliamentary elections later this year.
Since Morsi was overthrown, police have cracked down on the Muslim Brotherhood and it has now been blacklisted as a terrorist group. The crackdown has seen at least 1,400 people killed, including hundreds of pro-Morsi demonstrators who were killed in August 2013 when security forces demolished street camps in
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