Cairo: Scores of anti-military protesters have pulled down a concrete wall set up by the army close to the parliament building in Cairo following deadly clashes in December.

On Friday, protesters removed a large part of the wall constructed near near the iconic Tahrir Square in central Cairo.

Responding to a call by activists on the social networking website Facebook, the protesters said that the barrier, one of several in central Cairo, has made it hard for the people to move in the area where many private and state institutions are located.

Security forces stood behind a barbed wire and looked on as the protesters were removing boulders from the wall. No violence was reported.

The area has been the scene of a series of deadly clashes between security forces and anti-army protesters since a popular revolt unseated Hosni Mubarak in February last year.

The army set up another separation wall following street fighting between security forces and angry protesters in early February near the building of the Interior Ministry that supervises police. Thirteen people were killed in those clashes, according to government figures.