CAIRO, May 13 (Reuters) – Two men were killed on Sunday and
29 other people were injured after their convoy that was
illegally crossing from Egypt into Libya entered a minefield, a
medical source said.
Mahmoud Zahran, a Health Ministry official in the northern
Egyptian city of Marsa Matrouh, said an Egyptian and a Sudanese
man died when their vehicle, which was travelling in a convoy
with two others, hit landmines inside Libya.
Health officials and Egypt’s state news agency said all the
injured were Egyptians, except for two Sudanese. Reports had
earlier said the two dead were both Egyptian.
Egyptians have traditionally sought work in Libya, but the
conflict that toppled Muammar Gaddafi last year forced many to
leave.
A recovery in Libyan oil output to near pre-war levels is
luring many back, however, at a time when Egypt’s economy has
been hammered by the uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak.
Egypt’s state news agency said the injured were brought to a
hospital in Salloum, an Egyptian town near the border.
The north coast of Egypt and Libya is littered with
landmines laid during World War Two by Germany and Britain and
their respective allies.
(Writing by Edmund Blair; Editing by Andrew Osborn)
