Inmate injures his testicles, mother burns her son, brother kills brother, married couple abducted CAIRO: Some of the crimes recorded this week have regrettably been committed by family members. Al-Masry Al-Youm reported that a man killed his older brother for competing with their father in selling drinks under El Waraq Bridge. The daily cited poverty as the main culprit in this murder. When his father rejected his help in serving tea and coffee, Mohamed Gharib Abdel Basit decided to pitch his own stall a few meters away from his father's. However the father refused this competition and asked him to move away immediately. But the son protested and a dispute between them turned into a fight. This ended with Mohamed beating up his father in front of passersby. But Gharib, the younger son, interfered to defend his father. This fight ended tragically with Gharib stabbing his older brother to death. Al-Masry Al-Youm also reported that a newlywed couple was kidnapped by the bride's brother in Hurghada, where they had traveled to tie the knot and stay on for their honeymoon. After Samira ,19 and Ibrahim, 22 fell in love they decided to get married, but when Samira's brother, a butcher, refused they fled to Hurghada. Knowing their whereabouts in the coastal city, her brother landed there along with three of his friends. He pretended to have accepted their decision and managed to convince them to return to Cairo. On the way, the group showed their intention of abducting them. But Ibrahim managed to contact his brother on his cell phone, and told him they were kidnapped. He also gave him the car's license plate number. The incident was reported to the police which set up traps at the different entries to the capital. A car in which five men and a girl were traveling towards the Suez entry was stopped. The six people were taken into police custody to start investigations. But more staggering than killing and abducting, a mother killed her son in Sharqeya to stop him from wetting himself, reported El-Misaa. Basma Abdel Nabi Taher, from Al Rahmaniya village, burnt her three-year-old son Mohamed Nabil on his neck with a hot spoon as punishment for continuing to wet himself. The woman reportedly told the police that she woke up to find her son dead. She refused to give police information about the whereabouts of the child's father because they were not on good terms. Investigators noticed the many burns on the child's neck and after a grueling interrogation, the woman confessed to having burnt her son several times. She has been remanded to Al Sharqeya's prosecutor office. But apart from crimes involving families, the Damietta prosecution department is pressing ahead with investigations of the poisoning of a bank cashier, Al Gomhuriya daily reported. The cashier was found dead on the public road close to the bank where he was employed. Cash amounting to LE 1,000 was found in his pocket, along with his cell phone. The man was working at his desk at the bank when he suddenly received a phone call. He went out of the bank to speak at leisure away from his colleagues, but he never returned. Minutes before his death, he called his wife to tell her that he had been poisoned. Searching his desk at the bank, LE 11,000 was found, along with a marriage contract between him and a second wife. Also some LE 22,000 was reported missing from his trust. Investigations are in full swing to clear the mystery surrounding the cashier's death. Al Gomhuriya also reported that a young man died in the village of Sharniqash, Talkha and his body parts were scattered when a canon pipe exploded. Another three men were seriously injured and the front of some houses were damaged as a result of the explosion. Investigations revealed that the source of the explosion was a blacksmith's workshop that belongs to Ali Ahmed El Hosari, 52. The pipe had reportedly burst, killing 18-year-old Masoud Abu Saleh, who kept hammering on the pipe to empty it of TNT. The workshop's owner confessed to possessing two stores of these pipes and showed readiness to guide the police to the whereabouts of others in Mansoura. Finally Al-Masry Al-Youm reported one odd incident of self-abuse, where a prison inmate at Abu Zabel harmed himself by inflicting serious injuries to his testicles. Mohamed Hassan Ibrahim, 28, removed the outer skin of his testicles, and inflicting two serious injuries to his own neck and right thigh with a shaving razor. The inmate, who is serving a prison sentence for drug trafficking, injured himself to protest against prison management for having isolated him in solitary confinement. The inmate was taken to Al Manial hospital, but his condition remains critical. .
