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| Subject: Great: Two more Egyptian soldiers were killed in a shootout Wed Mar 19, 2014 7:28 pm | |
| A 13-year-old boy was shot dead on Wednesday in southern Egypt in clashes between police and supporters of deposed President Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood, a health official said.
And in Qalubiya province, north of Cairo, two Egyptian soldiers were killed in a shootout with Islamist militants, the Interior Ministry said, adding six militants were killed and eight arrested in a raid on a weapons storage facility.
Political violence, which has dogged Egypt since a popular uprising toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak in 2011, is expected to intensify as the country prepares for a presidential election, due in a few months, that army chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is expected to win easily.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/teenager-and-army-officers-killed-during-violence-in-egypt-20140320-hvkkd.html#ixzz2wSECaw6n |
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