Striking workers attack police in Egypt in price protests

Thousands of demonstrators angry about rising prices and stagnant salaries torched government buildings, looted shops and hurled bricks at police in a gritty industrial town as Egyptians defied government warnings and staged a nationwide strike.

About 150 people were arrested and 80 wounded in the Nile Delta town of Mahalla el-Kobra, where riots raged through the night among residents and disgruntled workers at the largest textile factory in Egypt.