 One person has been killed in Egypt following a dispute that began after this week's parliamentary elections between supporters of a failed ruling party candidate and the independent winner, police say. In northwestern el-Gharbiya province on Sunday, supporters of the National Democratic Party candidate, Mustafa Mohammed Kamal, allegedly blocked the roads in the village of winner Sayyed Jabur Habayeb, preventing students from going to school.
| "Yar! Block the road! Keep the kiddies from goin' to school! They don't need no damned school!" |
A rumour that Kamal's supporters had kidnapped five schoolgirls led the independent supporters to attack Kamal's village on Wednesday.
"Mahmoud! That daggone Kamal's kidnapped a schoolgirl!"
"I heard she was four!"
"So this one makes five!"
"Get a rope!" |
They reportedly kidnapped 25 men, dragging one of them behind a tractor until he died, said a police official who did not want to be named because he is not authorised to speak to the media.
| "Ow!... Ow!... Ow!... Rosebud!" |
Police intervened and controlled the situation after arresting 75 supporters of Habayeb, the official said.
| "Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!" |
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