By SPA
El-Arish, Egypt : Egyptian authorities shot and critically wounded a Darfurian man trying to sneak into Israel for work and detained eight other Africans in a pair of incidents Saturday, ap quoted security and hospital officials as saying.
In one incident, seven kilometers south of the Rafah crossing point, border guards opened fire at a group of three Sudanese, which included a woman, after they ignored shots fired into the air, said a security official, speaking on condition of customary condition of anonymity.
Zakariya Moussa Abdullah, 24, was shot in the back and remains in critical condition at the El-Arish hospital after an operation to remove the bullet, said Imad Kharboush, head of the North Sinai’s emergency unit.