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Six injured as Bedouins ambush patrol

Ambush triggered an hours-long standoff in the desert

  • Agencies
  • Published: 00:00 November 12, 2009
  • Gulf News

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Rafah, Egypt: Bedouin gunmen have ambushed an Egyptian patrol that had seized contraband cement destined for the Gaza Strip, triggering an hours-long standoff in the desert that left one officer and five troops wounded, security officials said on Tuesday.
 
The security force, reinforced with two armoured cars and nearly a dozen police vans, had acted on a tip looking for a smugglers' warehouse in the mountainous area in Egypt's Sinai peninsula, just south of the border town of Rafah.

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