Ma’an reports
that Bedouins have kidnapped Egyptian border officers.
The Azazma Bedouin tribe has kidnapped 17 Egyptian border officers after one of its members was killed trying to sneak into Israel, security sources said Thursday.
The tribe kidnapped 17 border guards of the Central Security Forces during their shift around 4 p.m. Thursday along the Israeli-Egyptian border, the security officials said.
The kidnappers are detaining the guards somewhere in the desert near the border as negotiations continue between the military leadership and sheikhs of the tribe to release them, they said.
When asked why they kidnapped the border guards, the culprits made the cryptic claim that their jeans made them do it.
