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CAIRO – An Egyptian policeman opened hearth Sunday on Israeli vacationers in the Mediterranean town of Alexandria, killing at least two Israelis and one Egyptian, Israeli and Egyptian government stated.
A remark from Egypt’s Interior Ministry stated that someone else was once wounded in the assault at the Pompey’s Pillar site in Alexandria. It supplied no additional main points.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry known the wounded as an Israeli who suffered reasonable accidents. The ministry stated in a remark that Israeli government had been operating with the Egyptian executive to deliver the Israelis house.
Extra News tv channel, which has shut ties to Egyptian safety businesses, reported that the suspected assailant was once detained.
Security forces temporarily cordoned off the site of the assault. Graphic photos posted on social media confirmed two other folks mendacity immobile at the floor. Another was once noticed being helped through a team of guys. One lady was once heard shouting for an ambulance.
Sunday’s assault got here as Israel was once battling Palestinian militants after a main incursion from Gaza.
Egypt was once the primary Arab nation to make peace with Israel in Nineteen Seventies, and has lengthy served as a mediator in the Israeli-Palestinian struggle. But anti-Israeli sentiment runs prime in the rustic, particularly all over bouts of violence between Israel and the Palestinians.
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