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Turkish migrant shot by Egypt police dies of wounds

19 Oct 2007 15:02:42 GMT
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EL ARISH, Egypt, Oct 19 (Reuters) - A Turkish man has died in hospital on Friday, a day after being shot by Egyptian police at the Israeli border as he tried to cross a barbed wire fence into the Jewish state, a hospital source said.

Police had shot the 35-year-old man in the head. About seven other migrants, believed to be members of his family, succeeded in crossing the border.

The shooting came three days after Egyptian police shot and wounded two Turkish teenagers who, along with their father, were trying to cross the border to look for work in Israel.

In a separate incident on Friday, Egyptian police arrested an Ethiopian woman attempting to enter Israel illegally south of Egypt's Rafah border crossing, police sources said.

They said the woman told them she had paid smugglers $500 to get her into Israel, where she hoped to find work. The two smugglers accompanying her managed to escape, police said.

Egypt's Sinai peninsula is the main conduit for traffickers trying to take migrants -- mainly Africans including refugees from Sudan's Darfur region -- into Israel for work or asylum.

Egyptian guards have opened fire at many of the migrants and have killed at least one Sudanese and one Eritrean so far this year as the numbers of those trying to enter Israel have swelled.

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