Cairo refugee protest turns ugly

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Cairo - Seven Sudanese refugees and three Egyptian police officers were injured on Wednesday as a demonstration against a perceived lack of United Nations refugee services degenerated into street clashes between anti-riot police and a crowd of around 1 000 protestors.

The protestors, all Sudanese refugees in Egypt, were staging a demonstration in front of the offices of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Cairo to protest the lack of services provided by the commission, when violence flared.

Demonstrators threw stones toward the UNHCR building, breaking window panes and damaging cars parked in the area.

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