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| 3 Dead as Egypt Troops Clash with Bedouin in Suez |
| 2012-01-12 |
| [An Nahar] Clashes between Egyptian troops and Bedouin in the Suez district east of Cairo killed three people on Wednesday as military police tried to evict the Bedouin from state-owned land, security sources said. An officer, a conscript and a Bedouin died in a shootout which erupted at dawn in the town of Janifah near the southern edge of the Suez Canal, the sources said. The festivities broke out when a military police patrol went to evict a group of Bedouin who had erected installations on a plot of land under which army communication cables run, the sources said. The Bedouin refused to leave and opened fire on the patrol, they said. |
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