At least 36 people die after taking police officer hostage in bid to escape custody, sources say.
At least 36 people described as supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood have been killed in Egypt while attempting to escape police custody.
The men were killed after taking a police officer hostage while being transferred in a police vehicle to Abu Zaabal prison near Cairo on Sunday, sources told Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera's Bernard Smith, reporting from Cairo, quoted a source as saying that the men had been arrested in the clearout of Cairo's Fateh mosque on Saturday.
He said the men somehow took the police officer hostage in an attempt to break free. However, other police officers attacked the vehicle with guns and tear gas and all inside were killed.
The AP news agency quoted Egypt's MENA agency as saying the vehicle was in a convoy of vans carrying more than 600 detainees rounded up in street violence in recent days.
Abu Zabaal was the scene of a mass breakout of prisoners in 2011 as police abandoned their posts during protests against the former president Hosni Mubarak.
Read more :http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/08/2013818175824286257.html
Source: Al Jazeera
Muslim Brotherhood supporters taken away from Fateh Mosque in Cairo on Saturday [Reuters]
The men were killed after taking a police officer hostage while being transferred in a police vehicle to Abu Zaabal prison near Cairo on Sunday, sources told Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera's Bernard Smith, reporting from Cairo, quoted a source as saying that the men had been arrested in the clearout of Cairo's Fateh mosque on Saturday.
He said the men somehow took the police officer hostage in an attempt to break free. However, other police officers attacked the vehicle with guns and tear gas and all inside were killed.
The AP news agency quoted Egypt's MENA agency as saying the vehicle was in a convoy of vans carrying more than 600 detainees rounded up in street violence in recent days.
Abu Zabaal was the scene of a mass breakout of prisoners in 2011 as police abandoned their posts during protests against the former president Hosni Mubarak.
Read more :http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/08/2013818175824286257.html
Source: Al Jazeera
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