| 5,985,179 |
30.02084 |
31.21394 |
Egypt |
|
Students at several campuses, including Cairo University, Helwan University, and others, organisedprotests against the decision to hand over of the islands of Tiran and Sanafir to Saudi control. According to the organiser, security officers continued to chase them even after they left. |
| 5,985,183 |
30.78847 |
31.00192 |
Egypt |
|
Students staged a protest on Tanta University's campus on 16 April. A student-led campaign dubbed "Students will not sell" was launched in the wake of the nationwide movement condemning the recent Egyptian-Saudi maritime demarcation deal. |
| 5,985,187 |
31.13159 |
33.79844 |
Egypt |
|
Two citizens were reported killed while three conscripts and eight other civilians were injured in an explosion in Al Arish inEgypt'sNorth Sinai. The bomb was targeting a prisoner transport van, according to security sources. |
| 5,985,190 |
30.78847 |
31.00192 |
Egypt |
|
The families of inmates in Tanta's first district police station protested while security forces were dealing with a riot situation inside the police station. The families, believing that a fire had broken out, gathered in front of the police station. |
| 5,985,195 |
30.78847 |
31.00192 |
Egypt |
|
On 18 April, several detainees held at Tanta's first district police station in Gharbeya governorate set light to clothes and blankets inside their detention cells. Officials immediately moved to the police station to end it. Guards sprayed water from fire hoses to disperse the inmates who were quarrelling. This action resulted in five inmates being slightly wounded. |
| 5,985,199 |
28.10988 |
30.7503 |
Egypt |
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A non-commissioned officer was killed in Minya governorate while chasing three gunmen on 19 April. A group of police personnel tried to stop two motorcycles while they were patrolling a road leading to Abaza village, leading to an exchange of fire. |
| 5,985,203 |
31.2163 |
34.11074 |
Egypt |
|
At least three police conscripts were killed and eight others injured on 19 April as Sinai Province militants targeted their convoy with an RPG inSheikh Zeweid city inNorth Sinai province. |
| 5,985,207 |
30.06583 |
31.4847 |
Egypt |
|
Scores of Cairo residents protested on 19 April after an Egyptian police officer shot and killed a street vendor and wounded two others. Bystanders protested at the scene of the shooting, chanting: "The police are thugs", smashing a police car and an ambulance and beating up another police officer as they blocked a road in the aftermath of the shooting. Riot squads were deployed to disperse the crowd. |
| 5,985,211 |
30.07708 |
31.28591 |
Egypt |
|
The families of detained protesters were assaulted while waiting outside a Cairo court for a verdict on 19 April. As security forces escorted the detainees to the prisoner transport vehicle among a crowd of relatives and activists, a group of womenlikely to have been commissioned by an unconfirmed partyattacked all women and girls present, particularly targeting young photojournalists. The police did not intervene to stop the assaults. |
| 5,985,215 |
31.2163 |
34.11074 |
Egypt |
|
Several social media users claimed on 20 April that civilians were killed in Sheikh Zuweid due to random shelling from an unknown source. A child was killed and seven others injured in the Al-Tarabin suburb of Sheikh Zuweid. The shelling is believed to be a mistake on the part of the army during clashes with militants," a North Sinai-based journalist told Daily News Egypt. |
