Betrayed by a tyre: A teenage schoolboy was run over at the entrance to Mersa Matrouh City, near the Radio Building. The car with an Alexandria registration that hit him was being driven by 30-year-old Farag Fayez. His 42-year-old brother, Abdel-Daim, was in the passenger seat and they had been driving from Ras el-Hikmat to Matrouh. As they were entering this Mediterranean city, one of the tyres of their car blew. Farag lost control of the car and ploughed into Abdel-Moneim Saber (14), killing him. The wayward vehicle eventually came to a halt after smashing into a palm tree and a lamppost in the central reservation. The car was a write-off; Farag and his brother were injured and had to be taken to Matrouh General Hospital for treatment. Meanwhile, police found something interesting in their wrecked vehicle: 11 large lumps of hashish. They also discovered that Farag had a criminal record for drug offences. The two brothers won't be going home once they recover from their injuries, as they have been accused of wrongful killing and possession of drugs. Kidnapped in Qaliubia: Police in el- Qaliubia have arrested four unemployed men who kidnapped a five-year-old boy from his family in the village of Kafr Mansour near Toukh. Twenty-five-year-old Islam Saeed told detectives that his little brother, Saad, had disappeared from outside their home while he was playing. In fact, Islam was partly to blame. He'd recently been released from prison, where he'd palled up with a drug dealer, who'd given him LE2,900 to buy drugs for him. Islam didn't do so but kept the money, so his friend kidnapped little Saad, with the help of three other men. The four suspects, all from the same village, have been named as Ramadan Hosni Rashad (Saeed's friend), Mohamed Ibrahim Rashad, Arafat Mahmoud Sayyed and Mohamed Tag. They detained Saad for three days before they were caught. The electrician's brother: Meanwhile, an Egyptian barber and his Iraqi friend, also a barber, kidnapped a man in Old Cairo and told his family to pay an LE50,000 ransom to get him back. The man they kidnapped owed them LE100 and was slow in repaying the cash. The first police heard about it was when they were contacted by an electrician called Ahmed Mohamed from the village of Kafr el-Ramah near Menouf in the Delta, who told them that a man he didn't know had rung him to say that he'd kidnapped his brother, a worker called Ragab, and wanted fifty grand for his safe release. The man who rang told Ahmed (34) to meet him on the Nile Corniche in Old Cairo with the cash. Of course, Ahmed told police and, when he honoured his appointment, detectives, who'd been hiding nearby, pounced on the man to whom he gave the briefcase with the money in. He gave his name as Sherif Saeed, a barber, and Ragab's national ID card was found about his person. He admitted kidnapping Ahmed's brother with the help of his Iraqi friend, Hossam Dalaf, who lives in Dar el-Salem, not far from Old Cairo. It was Sherif (26) who'd lent 30-year-old Ragab the LE100. They took him to the home of Hossam (also 30), where they'd been keeping him detained. Officers burst into the Iraqi's flat, releasing Ragab unharmed and also arresting Hossam.
