{"id":11228,"date":"2014-04-06T12:15:03","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T12:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=11228"},"modified":"2014-04-06T12:15:03","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T12:15:03","slug":"tribal-clashes-kill-23-in-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=11228","title":{"rendered":"Tribal clashes kill 23 in Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/CAIROO.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11229\" alt=\"CAIROO\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/CAIROO.jpg\" width=\"304\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/CAIROO.jpg 304w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/CAIROO-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px\" \/><\/a>A second day of clashes between two tribes in southern Egypt has left a total of 18 people dead, officials say.<\/p>\n<p>The Egyptian military said that it had intervened to stop the fighting between the Arab Bani Hilal clan and a Nubian family.<\/p>\n<p>The violence started late on Friday after offensive graffiti was drawn on the walls of a local school, security officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Several homes were burnt down and over 31 people were injured in the clashes.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses reported seeing bodies lying on hospital floors, while images emerged on social media showing bodies in the street.<\/p>\n<p>A meeting on Saturday between leaders from the two sides failed to reach a resolution.<\/p>\n<p>The state news agency said 17 local schools would be closed on Sunday, the first day of the working week in Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>Police failed to intervene to put an end to the violence, prompting the armed forces to step in, according to eyewitnesses.<\/p>\n<p>It is not known what sparked the graffiti war that led to the latest bloodshed.<\/p>\n<p>There has been tension in the past between Arab clans and ethnic Nubians, who originate from southern Egypt and north Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>However, this incident is the most serious instance of ethnic bloodshed in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A second day of clashes between two tribes in southern Egypt has left a total of 18 people dead, officials say. The Egyptian military said that it had intervened to stop the fighting between the Arab Bani Hilal clan and a Nubian family. The violence started late on Friday after offensive graffiti was drawn on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":11229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-11228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}