Cairo: Two people were killed and at least eight injured in clashes between residents and army forces in the Egyptian border town of Al Sallum, reported the official Middle East News Agency.
The clashes erupted on Tuesday evening when the town's people, bordering Libya, blocked a major route to protest the government's rise in road toll on trucks and restrictions on the cross-border traffic, added the agency.
The army intervened to re-open the road and when the protesters refused the forces fired in the air, according to the report.
The agency quoted a security source as saying that the town's young people moving across Al Sallum border crossing with Libya do not abide by regulations and "always create problems".
Egypt has been gripped by turmoil and lawlessness in the wake of a popular revolt that deposed long-standing president Hosni Mubarak in February last year.
