Two people were killed and three injured when a bakery owner opened fire in an argument over bread in a village in Sohag.
The fight took place at the Nazlet Aly village in the township of Juhaina and led to the death of Abdellah Seddiq, 48, a farmer, who was shot in the head, and his 20-year-old son, a worker, who was shot in the stomach.
Three of their relatives suffered bullet wounds.
The family accused al-Sayyed Saad Mahmoud, 45, a teacher and bakery owner, of shooting the victims in a fight over bread purchases.
On Tuesday, residents of Bardis village in Sohag briefly staged a sit-in that blocked the railway for several hours to protest a lack of butane gas cylinders. On Monday, hundreds of citizens in Assiut Governorate blocked the agricultural road and the railway to protest a lack of bread and butane cylinders.
The government denies any shortage of either bread or butane cylinders, blaming deteriorating security conditions and the black market for the troubles.
In 2008, Egypt — the world's largest wheat importer — faced a bread crisis that forced the government to turn to army bakeries to churn out millions of flat loaves to calm the angry masses.
Egypt consumes around 14 million tons of wheat annually and imports half of that to meet the demands of its 85 million population, around half of which survive on just $2 per day.
