Cairo, Egypt ? Several Sudanese migrants injured when Egyptian police violently cleared a ramshackle camp died later from their wounds, raising the death toll from the clash to 25, a security official said Saturday.

Police using water cannons and swinging truncheons evicted more than 1,000 Sudanese men, women and children from a Cairo park early Friday, ending their three-month protest against the U.N. refugee agency’s refusal to consider them for refugee status.

The Interior Ministry said Friday that 12 protesters died and 74 policemen were injured, but other officials said 20 people were killed. A security official, speaking Saturday on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to journalists, said several more protesters had died from injuries, raising the toll to 25.

On Friday, protest leader Boutrous Deng said 26 Sudanese died, including two women and seven children.

The migrants had camped in the park since Sept. 29, demanding the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees promise to resettle them abroad and interview them to determine their refugee status. At times, as many as 2,000 Sudanese were crammed into the park, about the size of four tennis courts.