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Preparatory school student shoots classmate in Upper Egypt Schoolboy in Upper Egyptian Qena governorate shoots fellow student in arm during exam; preparatory school student in Nile Delta's Gharbiya hurls teargas canister into school building
A middle school student in the Upper Egyptian city of Qena was injured on Monday after a classmate, Omar El-Hambool, shot him in the arm during an exam. El-Hambool was later arrested and is currently awaiting questioning by public prosecutors. According to investigations by Upper Egypt's General Security Directorate, El-Hambool entered the exam room carrying a machine gun before opening fire on his fellow student. The attack reportedly came in the wake of an earlier dispute between the two young men. The injured student was transferred to the Qena General Hospital. The exam, meanwhile, was postponed. Qena is known for being a centre of Egypt's illicit arms trade. The flow of smuggled weapons into Upper Egypt, especially Qena, surged following the 2011/12 uprising in next-door Libya. Most smuggled weapons are believed to have come from Libya and Sudan, Egypt's neighbour to the south. Meanwhile, in Egypt's Nile Delta, a 15-year-old preparatory school student in the Gharbiya governorate threw a teargas canister into his school on Monday after finishing a final exam. According to Al-Ahram's Arabic-language news website, Ibrahim found the canister on the street – the site of recent political clashes – and threw it into the school "for fun." Along with a handful of other Egyptian governorates, Gharbiya has recently witnessed intermittent clashes between opponents of Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi and security forces, during which police frequently fired teargas at protesters. http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/71912.aspx
