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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: Egypt pig farmers clash with police over slaughter AFP - Monday, May 4 CAIRO (AFP) - - Egyptian riot police clashed on Sunday with stone-throwing pig farmers who were trying to prevent their animals being taken away for slaughter as part of a mass nationwide cull. ADVERTISEMENT Between 300 and 400 residents of a slum district of Cairo, where mostly Coptic Christian scrap merchants raise pigs, hurled stones and bottles at police. Anti-riot police fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse the demonstrators, most of them youths. An AFP correspondent said the demonstrators ransacked a police post and an officer fired warning shots in the air. At least two protesters were hurt, the correspondent said, as an ambulance was on stand-by in the Manshiyet Nasr district in Cairo of about 35,000 scrap and recycling merchants known as the "zabaleen" who raise some 60,000 pigs. "They want to steal our livelihood," protested one of the farmers, Adel Izhak, before police started to take control of the district. Similar troubles broke out in Khanka, north of the capital, security officials said. Police were already repelled from Khanka by stone-throwers on Wednesday after the controversial cull was announced. Egypt began the cull of the nation's 250,000 pigs on Saturday, despite the World Health Organisation saying there was no evidence the animals were transmitting swine flu to humans. The authorities are calling the slaughter a general health measure. No cases of swine flu, or influenza A(H1N1), have been reported in the Egypt, the most populous country in the Arab world. Egypt's pigs mostly belong to and are eaten by members of Egypt's Coptic Christian minority and are reared by rubbish collectors in Cairo's shantytowns. Islam bans the consumption of pork for the majority Muslims. The rubbish collectors, who used the pigs to dispose of organic waste and sell off some animals from their herds once a year, say the cull will affect their business and wipe out a crucial source of income. Although no cases of swine flu have been reported in Egypt, the country has been battling an outbreak of bird flu for three years. Twenty-six people have died in Egypt from the H5N1 strain of bird flu since it was first identified in early 2006 and the country has seen an increase in cases over the past two months. The authorities have said it will take six months to carry out the pig slaughter and announced plans to import three machines to raise the culling capacity to 3,000 animals a day. According to the government newspaper Al-Ahram, the authorities plan to pay out 100 pounds (14 dollars) for each male animal slaughtered and 250 pounds (35 dollars) for each female pig. Email Story IM Story Printable View Blog This Recommend this article 0 users recommend Sign in to recommend this article » Most Recommended Stories » Related Articles: World Cause not yet known in 28-injury tour bus wreckAP - 46 minutes ago Berlusconi wife wants divorce: reportsAFP - 51 minutes ago Edwards acknowledges probe over campaign fundsAP - 1 hour 5 minutes ago Italian premier Berlusconi's wife seeking divorceAP - 1 hour 7 minutes ago Senators: Look beyond the bench for a new justiceAP - 1 hour 9 minutes ago Enlarge Photo Egyptian veterinarians take a mucus sample from a pig in a Cairo slaughterhouse, April 2009. Clashes erupted in Cairo between police and pig farmers who were trying to prevent their animals being taken away for slaughter. Most Popular – World Viewed Kenyan women to sex-starve men -- for politics Citigroup may need $10 bln more: report Amy Winehouse hospitalised after fainting Swine flu spreads economic shivers Chrysler begins court bid for quick bankruptcy exit View Complete List » Search: Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Copyright © 2009 Yahoo! Southeast Asia Pte Ltd. (Co. Reg. No. 199700735D). All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy - Terms of Service - Community - Intellectual Property Rights Policy - Help

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