CAIRO RIOTING CONTINUES
POLICE AND STUDENTS INJURED Received Thursday, 10 a.m. CAIRO, Nov. 27. Police reinforcements were sent to Abbs Bridge across the Nile tociay to stop students, who assembled on the Giza side, from entering Cairo. The bridge was the scene of a battle in February, eight students being killed or drowned when the police prevented them crossing. Several students were wounded when the police fired on students from the theological college of Alazhar University, who attempted to break tlirough a police barrier to reach the city's centre. In Alexandria university students attacked the police with stones, clubs and liand grenades. The police used buckshot. Thirty-two wm-e odmitted to hospital as a mai! of the disturbances. Those injured include 19 police, seven of whom were seriously hurt. Thirteen- students suf - t'ered buckshot wounds.
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Chronicle (Levin), 28 November 1946, Page 5
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