By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
One person was killed Monday in clashes between ruling party supporters and independents outside a polling station in Egypt's northern Nile Delta region, police reported.
Police identified the man who was killed as Ahmed Abdel Salam Ghanim, a supporter of the independent candidate running in Monday's elections for the upper chamber of parliament.
The death occurred when clashes between supporters escalated into gunfire outside a polling station in al-Husseiniya in al-Sharqiya province, police said, speaking on customary condition of anonymity.
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