(SomaliNet) Egyptian security officials said on Tuesday that an Egyptian police shot dead a 27-year-old Sudanese man as he tried to slip over the border into Israel. "You there! [BANG! BANG! BANGETY BANG!] Halt or I'll shoot!"
This brings to 20 the number of African migrants killed at the border so far this year. The killing, took place at night on Monday.
A police patrol saw the Sudanese man and four other migrants attempting to get through barbed wire on the border and ordered them to stop, opening fire when they failed to do so. Police arrested two of the migrants, while the remaining two managed to escape towards Egypt.