EGYPT: Eight prisoners die in escape attempt amid Cairo unrest

Jan. 29, 2011 9:17 AM PT

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Eight prisoners died and 123 were wounded in clashes at a Cairo prison Saturday when security forces put down an attempted mass escape, Reuters news agency reported.

None of the prisoners escaped from the Abu Zaabal prison, northeast of Cairo, the news agency reported.

Opposition leader Mousavi supports Egypt, Arab uprisings, condemns Tehran hard-liners

-- Carol J. Williams

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Carol J. Williams

Carol J. Williams is former senior international affairs writer for the Los Angeles Times. A foreign correspondent for 25 years, she has won five Overseas Press Club awards, two Sigma Delta Chi citations and was a 1993 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting. She has served as Times bureau chief in Budapest, Vienna, Moscow, Berlin and the Caribbean. A native of Rhode Island and irrepressible Red Sox fan, Williams speaks Russian, German, French and Spanish, and has reported from more than 80 countries. She left The Times in 2015.

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