The cravings have ended: A young man in Raml, Alexandria committed suicide because his mother refused to give him money with which to buy the drugs he craved. The 24-year-old victim, named only as Ahmed, was unemployed. When his mother wouldn't help him purchase the hashish he wanted, they had a big argument, and she told Ahmed that he ought to go to a drug dependency clinic for treatment. He wasn't happy with that suggestion and then he killed himself. Barakat's blood boils: Detectives have made an arrest in the case of a fellah from the village of Gomrees near Manfallout in Assiut Governorate, whose body was found dumped in the Kawdiat el-Islam district of Dairout. The deceased, whose body had been deposited in a sack on the banks of the Abu Gabal drainage ditch, was identified as Omar Hassan, 43. On the day he died, he went to the court in Manfallout, in order to bid at open auction for the rental of a cafeteria. It was known that Omar had LE10,000 with him that day, but he never made it to the court. En route, he met a friend of his, also from Gomrees, called Barakat Hussein. Instead of bidding for the cafeteria, Omar changed his mind. He and his friend decided to drive from Manfallout to Dairout, also in Assiut Governorate, in order to buy some drugs and a gun. If you own a gun in Upper Egypt, it gives you a certain social standing, even if you are very poor. On the way to Dairout, the two friends started arguing and Omar made the fatal mistake of calling Barakat poor and said that he (Omar) was richer than him and was from a better family. This slight made the blood boil in Barakat's proud Upper Egyptian veins: he knifed his friend and dumped his body. Fatal falls: A young woman jumped to her death from the roof of a block of flats in New Cairo's Fifth Agglomeration. She'd run up onto the roof after being caught on her own with a young man in his flat in the same building. The neighbours suspected that something was going on in the bachelor's pad. They went round and discovered the girl, who rushed up onto the roof with the neighbours in hot pursuit and then leapt to her death. They were particularly angry that she and the bachelor should be engaging in such activity in the holy month of Ramadan, especially during daylight hours, when Muslims should abstain from drinking, eating, smoking and sexual activity from dawn to dusk. Meanwhile, two children also fell to their deaths shortly before iftar on the same day, in separate incidents. They both died in Alexandria, one in the Manshiyet district and the other in el-Montazah. In el-Manshiyet, Omar Magdi, 10, was playing on his family's third-floor flat in el-Faransa Street, when he lost his balance and plummeted over the edge to his death. As for little Abdel-Rahman Saad Eddin, six, he fell from his family's tenth floor flat in el-Montazah.
