EL-ARISH: A security official says Egyptian police have shot dead an African migrant and wounded three others near the border with Israel.
The security official says the four men, all in their 20s, were trying to illegally enter Israel from Egypt’s Taba border region in the Sinai Peninsula on Monday.
He says three wounded men are Eritreans. The fourth, who was shot dead, did not have identification on him.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief the media.
Thousands of Africans try to reach Israel from Egypt every year, risking a dangerous desert crossing in hopes of getting work or asylum.
Egyptian border guards trying to stem the flow of illegal migration into Israel have killed dozens of migrants in recent years.
