Cairo- Hundreds of Egyptian villagers protested early Thursday after police killed a pregnant woman in a house raid, a security source told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

The 26-year-old pregnant woman resisted police who came to arrest her brother, who is being investigated in a robbery case.

Police hit the woman, who died after she was moved to a hospital in Samalout.

Samalout is located some 217 kilometres south of Cairo.

Villagers burnt car tyres and blocked an agricultural road after they attempted to set several police cars ablaze. (dpa)