CAIRO, March 28 (UPI) -- An Egyptian prosecutor has indicted three high-ranking provincial police officials on charges of murdering protesters.
Maj. Gen. Ahmed Abu Zeid, Col. Mohamed Abdel Maqsoud and Col. Mohamed Othman all face charges of murder and attempted murder, judicial sources told al-Masry al-Youm newspaper Monday.
In Beni Suef, south of Cairo, police gunfire killed 19 people and wounded more than 300 Jan. 28.
Lower-ranking officers already have been charged, and the prosecutor demanded that security forces find and detain any fugitive officers trying to escape justice.
In an unprecedented step last week, Attorney General Abdel Meguid Mahmoud charged former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly and other officials with abetting the murder and the attempted murder of hundreds of protesters.
