Egyptian police shoot and kill African woman trying to enter Israel
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Egyptian border police shot and killed an African woman Sunday who was trying to cross illegally into Israel with a group of other migrants, a local medical official said.
Police were trying to determine the identity and nationality of the woman who was killed, said Emad Kharboush, a medical official at el-Arish hospital near the Israeli border.
An Eritrean migrant was wounded during the shooting, and eight other Eritreans, including five children, escaped unhurt but were later arrested, Kharboush added.
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