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EL-ARISH, Egypt (AP) - Egyptian border guards shot and killed an Eritrean woman and arrested her two young daughters Saturday after they tried to cross illegally into Israel, security and medical officials said.
Mervat Mer Hatover, 37, and her daughters, ages 8 and 10, were among a group of Africans who paid hundreds of dollars to human traffickers to help them cross into Israel, said a security official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.
The guards chased the Africans along Egypt's border with Israel near Kontala, some 19 miles south of the Aouja crossing point, firing into the air and ordering the migrants to surrender, the official said. Hatover refused and tried to jump over the barbed wire marking the border when guards opened fire on her, he said.
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