A group of Islamists supporting former President Mohamed Mursi smashed several shops in Alexandria's Miami district and prevented residents in the area from celebrating Mursi's ouster on Wednesday.

After the armed forces' statement was broadcast, they prevented residents from taking to the streets to celebrate and destroyed several shops in Khaled Ibn al-Waleed Street, eyewitnesses living in the area reported.

There were reports of armed men assaulting residents and shops in Miami, the head of Alexandria's security department, Sherif Abdel Hamid, said.

Hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood members declared a sit-in in Sidi Beshr Square.

Earlier on Wednesday, Egypt’s top army commander Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said that the army has agreed with political forces to suspend the constitution and delegate the head of the constitutional court as an honorary president until early presidential elections are held.

According to the state-run newspaper al-Ahram, the army informed Mursi earlier on Wednesday that was no longer president of Egypt.