Shooting at Israeli-Egyptian border: The Egyptian police shot and killed Saturday two African refugees, including a seven-year-old Sudanese girl as they tried to cross the border into Israel,
security and hospital sources said.
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Speaking on condition of anonymity, the security sources said an Egyptian patrol opened fire on the refugees to stop them from getting across the border south of the Rafah crossing. They added that seven other African migrants had been detained, including the dead child's mother.
Their deaths bring to 16 the number of refugees killed at the border this year. Hospital sources said the other victim was an unidentified African in his thirties who was killed by a gunshot wound to his back.
Egypt has pursued a crackdown on African migrants that has seen up to 1,000 Eritrean asylum seekers deported since June 11,despite UN objections.
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