Another member of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood movement has reportedly been killed at the hands of Egyptian security officials amid the persistent crackdown on the group and its supporters, Press TV reports.

The body of Tareq Khalil was handed over to his family in the capital, Cairo, early on Friday morning, nearly three weeks after his arrest on charges of sponsoring anti-government violence.

Khalil's family said his body had signs of torture, and accused Egyptian police of murdering him in custody.

He was the movement’s leader in the seaport city of Suez.

Khalil’s death came two days after a raid by Egyptian police in the western part of Cairo that left 13 members of the opposition movement dead on Wednesday.

The Muslim Brotherhood called for a “rebellion” against Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in reaction to the deadly raid.

In a Wednesday statement, the Egyptian movement said the leaders were "murdered in cold blood," describing the president as a "butcher.”

It called the killings "a turning point that will have its own repercussions ... Sisi is initiating a new phase during which it will not be possible to control the anger of the oppressed sectors who will not accept to be killed in their own houses and in the middle of their families."

The Brotherhood said the men were tasked with supporting the families of the movement’s detainees, adding that they were "rounded up inside the house and then were murdered in cold blood without any investigations or indictments."

However, the Interior Ministry gave a different account of the incident, saying the nine were fugitives and were busy devising terrorist plots against the army, police, judiciary and the media.

Muslim Brotherhood was banned as a terrorist organization in late 2013 after the army toppled the government of Egypt’s first democratically-elected president Mohamed Morsi in July of the same year.

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