RIOTS CONTINUE IN ERITREA
40 PERSONS KILLED, 130 INJURED ASMARA, February 22. Moslems armed with swords defended their homes when fierce Copts attacked them with grenades and rifles to-night. The police killed 12 Copts. The death-roll is now 40 in two days’ rioting, with 130 injured. British troops, supported by tanks, were called out to-day to qii’ell scattered rioting which flared up again on the outskirts of Asmara. Moslem houses in the native quarter were burned. The rioting spread from Amraderho, 40 miles from Asmara, when grenades were thrown into a Moslem funeral procession.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 112, 24 February 1950, Page 3
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94RIOTS CONTINUE IN ERITREA Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 112, 24 February 1950, Page 3
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