Cairo tense after clash

Cairo tense after clash

Agence France-Presse

Between 300 and 400 residents of a district of Cairo threw stones and bottles at police as they arrived to take away their animals for a cull.

Anti-riot police fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse the demonstrators, most of them youths.

Egypt began a mass cull of the nation's 250,000 pigs on Saturday, despite the World Health Organization saying there was no evidence the animals were transmitting swine flu to humans. Officials are calling the slaughter a general health measure. No cases of swine flu, or influenza A(H1N1), have been reported in the Egypt.