Man dies in raid on land squatters

A man was killed and dozens others were wounded on Sunday in clashes between policemen and squatters on state land at a district in Giza near Cairo, officials and witnesses said. “A citizen was killed and 19 other civilians were injured in clashes between residents and policemen during a campaign to remove the encroachments on stateowned lands at Giza’s Warraq island in the Nile River,” the Health Ministry said in a statement. The ministry sent 15 ambulances to the scene that took the injured people to nearby hospitals.