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.