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EL-ARISH, Egypt (AP) - Egyptian guards at the breached border with Gaza fatally shot an African man and woman Wednesday as they tried to illegally cross from Egypt into the Palestinian territory, officials said.
The guards opened fire at a group of eight Africans in Rafah, a town divided by the border.
One of those killed was identified as a 22-year-old man from Ivory Coast who bled to death after a bullet severed a main artery in his thigh, the officials said. The woman was seriously wounded and died later at a local hospital, according to Imad Kharboush, head of the emergency unit in North Sinai.
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