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Egyptian arrested for throwing fire bomb to buy gas cylinder

Arab World Materials 6 November 2011 17:49 (UTC +04:00)
Police have arrested an Egyptian for lobbing a fire bomb to disperse a crowd at a provincial depot selling cheap butane gas cylinders, local newspapers reported on Sunday.
Egyptian arrested for throwing fire bomb to buy gas cylinder

Police have arrested an Egyptian for lobbing a fire bomb to disperse a crowd at a provincial depot selling cheap butane gas cylinders, local newspapers reported on Sunday.

The 26-year-old man told investigators he had used the bomb after failing to get a cylinder due to overcrowding outside the depot in the town of Kafr Shukr, located 70 kilometres north of Cairo, according to the paper, dpa reported.

The bomb sparked a fire and injured one female customer, police said.

Gas cylinders - heavily subsidized by the government - are widely used in parts of Egypt that have no access to home gas supplies.

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