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CAIRO - A 15-YEAR-OLD Egyptian boy has died the day after being shot by police during a demonstration over the high cost of living in the Nile Delta city of Mahalla el-Kubra, a security official said on Tuesday.
'Ahmed Ali Mabrouk Hamad, 15, was brought in to the hospital on Monday. He was already dead,' a doctor at the Mahalla el-Kobra hospital said, requesting anonymity.
He said the boy had been shot but that an autopsy would determine the exact cause of death. A security official also confirmed the death.
The doctor also said that 96 people had been injured in two days of rioting at the industrial city, including six in critical condition who have been transferred to the nearby city of Mansura for treatment.
The Egyptian city of Mahalla el-Kobra was calm but tense on Tuesday after a second day of clashes between police firing rubber-coated bullets and thousands of people protesting at the surging cost of living.
Thirty people, both civilians and police, were injured and 150 people have been arrested since Monday's demonstration in the Nile Delta city turned violent after protesters destroyed a portrait of President Hosni Mubarak, a security official said. -- AFP
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