23 killed in feud between families in south Egypt

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(Associated Press) A bloody feud in Egypt’s southern Aswan province between an Arab clan and a Nubian family has killed at least 23 people in two days of fighting, leaving bodies strewn on hospital floors and homes torched in its wake, government officials and witnesses said Saturday.

The feud started earlier this week over students from the two clans spraying graffiti on the walls of a local school. Nubian students accused members of the Arab clan of trying to destabilize the province by working for the former governments of ousted President Hosni Mubarak and overthrown Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, said Abdel-Sabbour Hassan, a Nubian activist.

Insults over honor followed, a security official said …

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