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Egyptian police chief shot dead

Suspected Muslim fundamentalists yesterday shot dead a police general in a southern Egyptian town that is a hotbed of radicals, AFP reports from Assiut. General Omar Mustafa, shot as he left his house, was the second police general to be killed in four days in Assiut.

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