From Basim: "Egyptian security forces killed the bureau chief of a
provincial office of state newspaper Al-Ahram on Monday after opening fire on a
car they thought had tried to escape from a checkpoint enforcing a dusk-to-dawn
curfew, the army said in a statement. Tamer Abdel Raouf, head of Al-Ahram's
bureau in Egypt's Buhayra province, was shot dead while a journalist from
another state newspaper, Al Gomhuriya, was injured. Journalists are exempt from
the curfew. "No excessive gunfire was opened on the car in question nor any
killing of those in it intended," the statement said ...
Raouf was fatally hit in the head when soldiers opened
fire on his car, while Hamed al-Barbari, a reporter for the Egyptian daily Al-Gomhuria who was travelling with him, sustained hand
and leg injuries. The Union of Journalists quoted Barbari as saying that, as
they approached the military checkpoint, they decided to take a different route
and that the soldiers opened fire as they were turning round.
