Egyptian police kill Sudanese woman on Israeli border
Forces shoot woman after she refuses to surrender; another woman with infant arrested, traffickers manage to escape. At least six people killed by Egypt police on border since beginning of year
Egyptian police on Tuesday fatally shot a Sudanese woman and arrested a second one who was with an infant as they tried to cross into Israel, a security official said.
The shooting took place a few miles north of the Rafah border crossing point when the slain Sudanese women from the wartorn Darfur refused to surrender to police, the official said.
Imad Kharboush, head of el-Arish emergency unit said the unidentified slain woman was shot three times, including once in the head.
The police failed to capture the traffickers, whom the women paid about $500 each for shelter and passage from Cairo across Egypt's Sinai Peninsula to the Israeli border, the security official said.
Hundreds of African refugees hope to make it to Israel to seek political asylum and jobs there. Dozens of African migrants have been detained over the past year and at least six have been killed this year by Egyptian border guards.
On Monday, a Sudanese man was shot in the stomach also near the Rafah crossing. He was part of a group of five Sudanese men trying to cross into Israel illegally.
They cut the barbed wire at the boundary and the four other Sudanese men got across. The wounded man was taken to the nearby el-Arish general hospital where he underwent surgery.
