Microbus drivers held a strike on Monday after a non-commissioned police officer shot a microbus driver dead on the Ring Road near Maadi after intervening in a dispute between two drivers, Ahram Online reported. An eyewitness who was with the driver claimed he was hit in the head by the policeman’s gun before the driver was shot dead in the neck, conflicting with other eyewitness reports claiming that the slain driver had refused to take the policeman on a “work errand.” While the Interior Ministry’s initial statement said the shooting was the result of a “warning shot,” the prosecutor’s office later stated that the policeman in question was being held on murder charges.