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Egyptian guards kill illegal Sudanese migrant
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Aug 6, 2008 - 5:04:07 AM

Egyptian guards kill illegal Sudanese migrant

El-ARISH, Egypt (AP) — An Egyptian medical official says border guards have shot dead a Sudanese migrant who was trying to cross illegally into Israel.

Imad Kharboush, head of the Northern Sinai ambulance department, says that a 24-old Sudanese man from the war-torn Darfur region was shot in the back of his head while trying to get across barbed wire on the Egypt-Israel border early Wednesday.

Kharboush says the man was part of a group of four Sudanese migrants. The other three were arrested, and two of them were slightly wounded in the incident.

Many African migrants seeking jobs try to cross illegally into Israel from Egypt.