Egypt police shoot two Africans at Israel border

[arundhatiroyfan]

Source: Reuters Africa

SMAILIA, Egypt (Reuters) - Egyptian police shot and wounded two migrants from Mali and Kenya who tried to slip over Egypt's desert frontier into Israel on Sunday, security sources said.

Escalating police violence at the Egypt-Israel border has left 11 migrants dead since the start of the year, while scores of others, mostly from Africa, have been detained. Police killed an Eritrean migrant at the border on Thursday.

"The Egyptian police were obliged to fire on two Africans while they were attempting to sneak into Israel via a border point south of Rafah after they refused orders to stop and tried to flee toward Israel," one Egyptian security source said.

The sources, speaking on customary condition of anonymity, said the migrants were both men in their twenties.

Read more: http://africa.reuters.com/top/news/usnBAN037160.html

[enlightenment]

1. What an interesting and telling title.

Egyptians are as much "Africans" as the other people who live on the continent.

[uppityperson]

2. And USAnians are not the only "Americans" either.

[dbmk]

3. In all fairness

it was probably to specify that it was not Israelis.

If the headline had just been "two men at the Israeli border" - the natural conclusion would prob have gone in the other direction.

[Prayingforrain48]

4. I, too, found the title to be terribly interesting

The title and the article seemed to be differentiating between "Egypt" and "Africa". I wonder if this is because of racial factors, as most Egyptians aren't "black".