The Triangle of Terror: Detectives in el-Qaliubia Governorate have arrested three gangs, consisting of a total of nine members, who'd been dealing in the district of Shebeen el-Qanater, known as the Golden Triangle. As the net closed in on them, they moved their activities to Abu Zaabal and Arab Gaheenah districts, adjacent to the Golden Triangle, also known as the Triangle of Terror. There they were caught in the villages of el-Jaafara and el-Samn after a gunfight, and officers confiscated 1.5kg of heroin, two automatic weapons, 16 mobile phones and an undisclosed sum of money from them. The nine drug dealers were named as Salem Sind Soleiman; Hossam Mohamed Soleiman; Hossam's brother Mohamed; Saeed Amin Mohamed; Saeed's brother Ragab; Bassem Mohamed Salem; Ayman Hassan Salem; Abdel-Basset Mohamed Abdou; and Mohamed Sayyed Salem. Rapists' revenge: Shubra el-Kheima Juvenile Criminal Court has sentenced two secondary school girls to ten years in prison, having found them guilty of torturing a preparatory school girl. Part of the torture involved their using a metal object to take away her virginity. It was a revenge attack, because their teenage victim had implicated them in a case involving theft. It was last year that passersby found Asmaa (13) totally naked in a building under construction in Shubra el-Kheima, el- Qaliubia Governorate. She was in a terrible state, so they rushed her to Nasser General Hospital. As well as having been raped, Asmaa had had her hair shaved off and her two tormentors had also slashed her body with a razor blade. She named her two assailants as Karima (17) and Sayyeda (16), who were swiftly arrested. While the sexual assault took place, one of the girls put her hand over Asmaa's mouth, so no-one would hear her screaming. She nearly killed her in so doing. Asmaa's family were happy with the verdict, although they would have preferred to see Karima and Sayyeda hang. Shaimaa's sad story:Ahousewife who was feeling depressed plunged to her death from her family's eighth-floor flat in New el-Nozha, northeast Cairo. She'd walked out on the husband with whom she was constantly arguing, because he kept on coming home late from work. The deceased, named as Shaimaa (25), had moved back in with her mum and dad three days before she died. Her 15-year-old brother, Mohamed, said his sister walked onto the balcony, then climbed over the surrounding wall and jumped. There was nothing he could do to save her. Death for the driver:Acircuit of the Cairo Criminal Court in New Cairo's Fifth Agglomeration has sentenced to death a driver called Hussein Abbas, who shot dead his ex-wife and four members of her family in their home in el-Maasara, Helwan Governorate. As reported in this column at the time, it was about a year ago that the condemned killed his former wife, Neamat Sayyed Hammam, as well as Sayyed Ahmed Hammam, Fatiha Ahmed Salem, Mohamed Hammam and Rabie Mohamed Khamis. Hussein, angry because Neamat had divorced him the khula' way, bought an automatic weapon and opened fire on her and his former in-laws. After his killing spree, he sought refuge in a mountainous area in Suez before being arrested.
