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35 Egyptian police hurt as football violence simmers
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A superb Antar Yahia goal gave Algeria a 1-0 victory over Egypt Wednesday and a place at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. In Cairo, football fans expressed their bitter disappointment. Duration: 00:58.
CAIRO (AFP) - – Violent protestors injured dozens of police near the Algerian embassy in Cairo on Friday, fanning the flames of a diplomatic row that erupted over a football World Cup qualifier won by bitter rivals Algeria.
Thirty-five police were hurt and 15 cars damaged in the violence, as demonstrators hurled stones and firebombs, a police official said.
Authorities gave no details on any protestors hurt, but said 20 had been arrested.
Protests broke out late Thursday following Egypt's 1-0 defeat the previous night in a play-off in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. They turned violent early on Friday after reports of Egyptians having been attacked in Khartoum.
Angry Egyptians burned Algerian flags, chanted anti-Algerian slogans and sang the Egyptian national athem.
"We should treat Algeria like any country that has declared war on us," said Amr Higazi, a university student holding a placard calling for the expulsion of the Algerian ambassador.
In the afternoon, riot police blocked access to the street leading to the embassy, in the affluent Nile River island district of Zamalek. They herded away about 30 protestors, some of whom trampled on and burned Algerian flags.
Egyptian leaders weighed in to the dispute after fans said stones were thrown at their bus on Wednesday as they made their way to Khartoum airport after the defeat.
Health Minister Hatem al-Gabali said 21 Egyptians were lightly injured in the attacks.
That was disputed by Sudanese police, who said the number was only four.
Later, in a rare public statement, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's elder son Alaa slammed the Algerian fans as "mercenaries" and said the Egyptian team had faced "terror and self-pressure" in Khartoum.
"There appears to be something strange in the composition of Algeria -- it has spite and malice towards Egypt," he was quoted by state news agency MENA as telling a television sports programme.
For his part, Arab League chief Amr Mussa called for calm.
"I call for a return to calm and reason on the Arab street. The affair must be restored to its true proportions, after all the Egyptians like the Algerians are Arabs," Mussa, in Dubai for a forum organised by the World Economic Conference, told AFP.
Related article: FIFA opens disciplinary action against Egypt.
Egypt had recalled its ambassador from Algeria on Thursday for consultations and summoned the Algerian envoy in Cairo to protest the attacks.
It was the second summons for Ambassador Abdelkader Hadjar, who was called to the foreign ministry last week after Algerian fans attacked Egyptian businesses and homes in Algiers.
People attacked 15 offices belonging to a local subsidiary of Egypt's Orascom Telecom, prompting the company to pull its 25 Egyptian employees and their families out, and twice ransacked the Algiers offices of Egypt Air.
Related article: Arab League urges calm.
That was in response to an incident before the first match between the two sides in Cairo last week. Several Algerian footballers were hurt when the team bus was stoned on the way from the airport to their hotel.
And after that game, buses carrying Algerian fans were also stoned.
Separately, Sudan has summoned Egypt's envoy in Khartoum to protest Egyptian media reports of security lapses in Khartoum allowing Algerians to attack Egyptian fans.
On Thursday, world football governing body FIFA said it had begun disciplinary proceedings against the Egyptian Football Association over the attack on the Algerian team, which Egyptian security officials insisted was staged by the Algerians.
For its part, EFA said it might suspend participation in international football competition "for at least two years in protest at attacks against Egyptian fans and players in Sudan."
In Algeria, meanwhile, authorities said on Friday that at least 14 people had died and more than 250 been injured in traffic accidents during celebrations following the victory over Egypt.
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