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Bosonic

(3,746 posts)
Fri Jun 28, 2013, 04:14 PM Jun 2013

US Citizen Killed In Alexandria Protests

Source: Sky News

Violent clashes in the Egyptian city of Alexandria have left one man dead and more than 70 people injured.

A senior security official said the male victim, a US citizen, died from a stab wound to the chest after violence erupted between supporters and opponents of President Mohamed Morsi.

General Amin Ezzeddin, a senior Alexandria security official, told the Reuters news agency that the young American was using a mobile phone camera near an office of Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood in the city's Sidi Gaber neighbourhood when it was being attacked by protesters.

He was rushed to a military hospital, where he died.

Read more: http://news.sky.com/story/1109376/us-citizen-killed-in-alexandria-protests

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US Citizen Killed In Alexandria Protests (Original Post) Bosonic Jun 2013 OP
There are some places dipsydoodle Jun 2013 #1

dipsydoodle

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1. There are some places
Fri Jun 28, 2013, 04:43 PM
Jun 2013

Last edited Fri Jun 28, 2013, 06:02 PM - Edit history (1)

where its not wholly a good idea to be.

He was filming an attack on the offices of the Muslim Brotherhood.

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