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Home arrow Middle East arrow Egypt arrests 28 African migrants at Israel border
Egypt arrests 28 African migrants at Israel border PDF Print E-mail
Written by Egypt News   
Monday, 08 June 2009
Egyptian Israeli border Egyptian security official announced that Egypt's police arrested 28 sub-Saharan African migrants who were trying to slip illegally into Israel on Monday

Egypt's official added that the migrants, who included two children and five women, made a run for Egypt's border with Israel in mid-Sinai after spotting border police but stopped when they fired warning shots.

None of the migrants was injured, the official said. Police shot dead a migrant and wounded another near the border earlier this month.

Police killed least 28 migrants near the border last year.

The porous 250-kilometre frontier has become a major transit route for migrants, asylum-seekers and drug smugglers. Israel has asked Egypt to clamp down on the traffic.

Egypt's policy of shooting migrants has generated harsh criticism from human rights groups. The migrants say they try to leave Egypt because of poverty and racism.

Rights groups have urged Egypt not to return some migrants to their countries, where they face human rights abuses.

 

 

 

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