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Egypt says 1 killed, 50 injured in clashes on Nile islands

Egyptian police on Sunday fired tear gas to disperse a rock-pelting crowd of residents on a River Nile island in Cairo, clashes that left one person dead and 50 others injured, according to authorities.

 

The Health Ministry said a resident was killed and said 19 others were wounded in the clashes on al-Waraq island on the northern fringes of the Egyptian capital. It did not say how the man was killed.

 

An Interior Ministry statement said a total of 31—policemen as well as contractors who arrived with them on the island—were injured in the clashes. The injured policemen included two generals, it said.

 

Ten residents were arrested, it added.

  

The violence broke out when police attempted to evict residents staying or utilizing state land without permission, part of an ongoing, nationwide campaign launched by President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi to retake state property illegally controlled or run for profit by individuals or commercial enterprises.

 


פרסום ראשון: 07.16.17, 21:19