CAIRO: Egypt’s ousted dictator Hosni Mubarak, who is serving a life sentence, was injured when he slipped in a prison shower yesterday, the official Mena news agency reported.
The former president, who was sentenced over the killings of protesters during the uprising that toppled him last year, was being treated for a head wound and bruising in the medical ward of the south Cairo prison, Mena reported.
Mubarak, 84, ruled Egypt for three decades before he was forced to resign on February 11, 2011 following 18 days of mass protests. He was sentenced to life in June.
Turkey seizes drugs, guns in raid on Kurdish rebels
DIYARBAKIR: Turkish security forces backed by helicopters seized an estimated $22.5m worth of marijuana along with guns and fertilizer in a swoop against suspected Kurdish militants yesterday, officials said.
Hundreds of soldiers, police and special forces carried out the coordinated raids in seven villages around the southeastern city of Diyarbakir, seizing drugs, guns, ammunition and ammonium nitrate, which can be used to make explosives, officials said.
Turkish officials say the drug trade is a major source of funding for Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants, who since 1984 have been fighting to carve out a Kurdish state in Turkey’s southeastern border region with Iran and Iraq.
Agencies
