Police brutality in Cairo – level 1

28-04-2016 07:00

This news is from Cairo. A policeman gets into an argument with a vendor. The argument is about the price of a cup of tea.

The policeman shoots the vendor. The vendor dies. The policeman injures two more people.

This is not the first incident like this. People are angry. They go into the streets.

Difficult words: vendor (a person who sells something), injure (to hurt, to do something bad to another person’s body), incident (a situation when something happens).

You can read the original story and watch the video in the Level 3 section.

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