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Egyptians torch police truck after killing
09 Oct 2008 09:16:39 GMT
 Source: Reuters
CAIRO, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Around 100 Egyptians set fire to a police truck on a main road in central Egypt on Thursday after a pregnant woman died during a police raid on her house, police sources said.

Mervat Abdel Salam Abdel Fattah, 32, stood in the way of police looking for her brother in a case of theft in the town of Samalout, 200 km (120 miles) south of Cairo, they said.

A policeman hit her with the butt of his pistol and she fell and died, they added.

In revenge friends and relatives attacked and set fire to a police pickup truck on the road from Cairo to the southern city of Assiut. A brigadier was taken to hospital with injuries from a beating and most of the policemen fled, they said. (Writing by Jonathan Wright; Editing by Louise Ireland)


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