Sinai bedouin kill 2 police, free prisoners

Bedouin tribesmen shot dead two policemen in the Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday as they freed eight suspects on their way to a court hearing, security sources said.

The tribesmen, using four pick-up trucks, cornered the police van carrying the prisoners, then opened fire, the security sources said. Three policemen and a driver were also wounded. "The people behind the attack were probably relatives of one of the prisoners seeking to free him," a security source said. (Reuters)