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Convict disguised as woman recaptured

An escaped Egyptian prisoner was recaptured as he fled a police ambush disguised as a woman in the Suez Canal city of Ismailia, security sources said on Saturday.

Adel Mohammed Dasouqi, 35, escaped from Cairo’s Abu Zaabal Prison earlier this year where he was serving a three-year sentence for robbery and extortion. He was accused of using fierce dogs to force shopkeepers and other people to pay him protection money.

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