Cairo – Egyptian border forces shot dead five Sudanese migrants trying to cross from Egypt’s turbulent North Sinai region into Israel on Monday, the military said in a statement.
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“Law enforcement tasked with protecting the border spotted at dawn today a group of Africans trying to sneak though the international border in cooperation with criminal elements involved in illegal immigration,” the military said.
“The force fired several warning shots and moved to arrest those trespassers who shot at the security force. The force engaged them, killing five, injuring six and arresting five more. All of them were Sudanese.”
North Sinai, which is bordered to the east by Israel and the Gaza Strip, is the epicentre of an Islamist militant insurgency. Militants there have killed hundreds of soldiers and police.
On Nov. 15, Egyptian police found the bodies of 15 African migrants who appeared to have been shot dead in the same region, security sources said at the time.
They said another eight migrants had been wounded in that. It was not clear who had attacked the migrants or which countries they had originated from.
BIBI watch and learn how its done in the middle east/Africa.
Egypt shoots dead unarmed ‘refugees’ and no-one blinks. Israel shoots dead armed terrorists and they say that Israel planted the knives near them or claims of over zealousness etc.
How come Egypt knows how to shoot -to -kill and Israel gets it right maybe 50% of the time at best??
Hmmm. I saw a report earlier today that said ” five Sudanese migrants were found dead at the Israel border,” leaving you to believe that Israel shot them. Simply amazing!