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  • Monday ,16 May 2011
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22 injured in Cairo shooting

By-EG

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Monday ,16 May 2011

22 injured in Cairo shooting

CAIRO (Update 1)- Around 22 protesters were injured Saturday evening when unknown people shot at demonstrators staging a sit-in outside the official TV building near the Cairo Nile,  a Coptic priest said on Sunday.

 Bishop Flubert, the leader of the protest, added that at least five cars were torched when alleged thugs attacked them from a bridge over the Nile. He accused police of being lax in defending the demonstrators. Hundreds of Egyptians have been protesting outside the TV building agains recent attacks on a church in Imbaba near Cairo.