Police checkpoint attacked in Aswan
A police corporal was killed Wednesday morning in Aswan, and three people injured including one policeman during an exchange of gunfire with armed men in a pick-up truck when they breached a checkpoint in the village of Shatb in the southern governorate of Aswan.
Police corporal Ahmed Faragallah was 26 years old and the injured policeman, Mohamed Sayyed, was aged 23.
According to police reports the armed men opened fire on the checkpoint first. The two civilians were killed when they happened to be passing by in a tuk-tuk at the time of the shooting.
Reuters meanwhile reported that the incident appeared to be a revenge killing carried out by relatives of a man killed by the police. Reuters reported an Interior Ministry statement saying that the men had been killed when he tried to reverse at speed away from a checkpoint.
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