Protester death toll rises to 25
From correspondents in Cairo
31dec05
THE death toll among Sudanese refugees during violent clashes with Egyptian police has risen to 25, judicial sources said today.
The refugees died after several thousand riot police wielding batons and water cannon on yesterday forcibly removed hundreds of Sudanese who had been staging a protest outside UN offices in Cairo for three months.
A judicial inquiry has been opened into the deadly violence.
Investigators went to a Cairo morgue where they found the bodies of 25 victims from the clashes, judicial sources said.