Protests break out in Egypt after police officer allegedly beat man to death

Egyptian social media users have lashed out at security services after a man was reportedly beaten to death by a police officer on Wednesday.

According to eyewitnesses and family testimonies shared on social media, a police officer beat Mohamed Youssef inside a poultry shop the latter owned in the village of Monshaat el-Karaam in the Nile Delta province of Qalyubia.

Egypt’s interior ministry has yet to comment on the incident, but state news agency MENA cited a security source on Thursday as denying that Youssef was killed by an officer.

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