Egyptian police shoot Bedouin man at Israel border
ISMAILIA, Egypt (Reuters) - Egyptian police shot and wounded an Egyptian Bedouin man on Friday who was trying to slip across the Sinai peninsula's desert border into Israel, security sources said.
The sources identified the man as Barhoum Ahmed Atallah, 25, and said he was wounded in the abdomen. One security source said Atallah was suspected of being involved in smuggling, while others could not say why he sought to reach the Jewish state.
The Israeli-Egyptian border is a busy conduit for Egyptian goods smugglers and mostly African migrants seeking work or asylum in Israel.
Egyptian border guards have often shot at migrants at the border, killing at least 13 this year and arresting scores. But it is less common for them to shoot Egyptian Bedouin, the nomads indigenous to the desert peninsula.
(Reporting by Yusri Mohamed and Mohamed Yussef; Writing by Cynthia Johnston)
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