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Tear-gas affected protesters against Egypt’s President Mohamed Mursi clean their eyes during clashes along Qasr Al Nil bridge leading to Tahrir Square in Cairo in January 2013. The tear gas can do more than make people cry; some suffer convulsions and some have died from the gas or from being hit by a canister itself.
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