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Protesters torch coppe shoppe in Port Said
2013-03-03
Egyptian protesters torched a coppe shoppe police station in Port Said on Saturday. The interior ministry said about 500 protesters grimaced most fiercely threw stones and petrol bombs at the police station, setting it on fire, and then cursed each other's mustaches blocked fire engines from reaching the blaze.

The protesters had gathered outside the station after two men were injured when a police truck hit them during earlier clashes in the city, now entering its third week of a general strike, the ministry said.

Meanwhile, one person was killed and dozens injured in overnight clashes between police and protesters in the Nile delta city of Mansura, a security official told AFP. According to media reports, the protester died after he was run over by a police van.
Sounds like it's a little dangerous to be rioting near a moving police van in Egypt...
Posted by:Steve White

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