Residents attack police station after shooting death

A police station in Ameeriya, a neighborhood in eastern Cairo, was attacked by residents late Sunday. The assault followed the shooting death of a 17-year-old local youth.

Media reports say a car accident led to a verbal argument between a police officer and Abdel Rahman Tareq. According to the privately owned Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper, Tareq tried to assault the officer, who then fired several shots at Tareq. The young man died at the scene.

A relative of the dead man told the news website Masrawy that Tareq's family and neighbors later surrounded the Ameeriya police station, where the officer had fled after the shooting. Meanwhile, security reinforcements were deployed to the station premises for fear of just such an attack. 

Reports posted on the social media website Twitter claimed that the family broke into the station, assaulted the officer, and set the police chief's car on fire. 

Mada Masr was unable to independently confirm the reports. No injuries were reported by the Health Ministry.

The body of the dead man was transported to Zaiton Hospital, where state prosecutors were to examine it, according to Sada Albalad news website.

In the early morning hours of November 20, unknown assailants attacked a police checkpoint near Ameeriya with a homemade bomb, injuring four policemen. No suspects in the attack have been arrested.