Amid hype over constitution, Egypt's police brace for the worst


  • World
  • Tuesday, 14 Jan 2014

A petrol bomb thrown by Al-Azhar University students who support the Muslim Brotherhood and deposed President Mohamed Mursi, lands near riot police during clashes at the university's campus in Cairo's Nasr City district December 29, 2013. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

MANSOURA, Egypt (Reuters) - As Egyptians vote in a constitutional referendum meant to help bring stability, policemen such as Brigadier-General Sayed Emara have good reason to dig in for more bloodshed.

He lost colleagues and friends last month, when a suicide bomber in a car ripped open a five-story building where security officials in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura worked. Seventeen people, most of them police, were killed.

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