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ISMAILIA (Egypt): Israeli forces shot dead a man from Egypt on Wednesday as he was trying to cross the border, police sources said.
At the Awja crossing point in central Sinai on Thursday the Israelis handed over to the Egyptian authorities the body of the man, named as Ayesh Suleiman Moussa, 32, they added.
An Israeli military spokesman said: “Border police fired at a group of people trying to infiltrate into Israel, killing one of them and wounding another”.
There were no further details about the wounded person.
The Israeli-Egyptian border is a busy conduit for smugglers and migrants seeking work in Israel, mainly Africans.—Reuters
