A migrant died on Saturday when Egyptian
police fired on a group of Africans trying to sneak across the border into Israel
from the Sinai peninsula, a security official said.
"Police opened fire on a group of African migrants who were trying to cross the border into Israel south of Rafah," the official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
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