Not so surprising: A worker was caught trying to smuggle hashish and hallucinogenic pills to his friend in Tanta Prison, el- Gharbia Governorate. The smuggler was named as Mamdouh Mohamed and his friend as Mahmoud Abdel-Fattah, who, perhaps unsurprisingly, is serving a sentence for drug offences. A train near Tanta: A train from Tella broke down for an hour near Kafr el- Sheikh Selim Station, not far from Tanta (not to be confused with the mainline Kafr el-Sheikh Station), for no apparent reason. What had happened was that two young men had applied the pneumatic brakes on the ispinsa (rear carriage). They then grabbed a pretty young woman, whom they intended to rape in the fields in this rural area. But she started screaming, alerting the other passengers, who manage to save her, while the driver was able to sort out the problem, allowing the train to resume its journey. Police in el-Gharbia Governorate were alerted that the train had been tampered with on the Shebeen el-Kom-Tanta line and arrested two suspects: Ahmed Badeer, a worker, and Mohamed el-Sayyed, unemployed. They were travelling in the ispinsa when they spotted the attractive lass and decided to try and rape her. Dangerous dealer dies: A drug dealer was killed and one of this very dangerous customer's accomplices injured when police cornered them in el-Qaliubia, a governorate which can best be described as being the heart of Egypt's narcotics trade. It was in the village of el-Ammar near Toukh that detectives pounced after keeping the pair under surveillance for quite some time. In fact, the gang consisted of three members, the third of whom they arrested in a similar operation a few days ago. After the first arrest, officers tracked down the ringleader, Ramadan Abdel- Ghaffar, and Mohamed Eissa to their hideout in el-Ammar. In the ensuing gun battle, they shot dead Ramadan and shot and injured Mohamed. The deceased was certainly no stranger to police. He had been in trouble on 14 previous occasions for drug-related crimes, violence and aggravated burglary and had spent some time in prison. Ramadan was also wanted on nine other charges, two of them being incidents where he'd previously shot at detectives. Act of revenge: In Abishoi, Fayoum Governorate, a young woman strangled the daughter of her husband's brother. It was an act of revenge, because the killer had fallen out with the little girl's mother. The murder was witnessed by the victim's paternal cousin, the suspect's son. She then threw the toddler's body off the roof of her home to make it look like she'd accidentally fallen to her death. Israa Ragab was two-and-a-half years old. Curiously, when she found the body, Israa's mother refused to go to the police, because she loathed the idea of an autopsy on her daughter. She hid Israa's body in a sack behind their home. When her death came to light, her mother claimed that her daughter had fallen downstairs and died. When her paternal uncle's wife, 21-year-old Ma Sha' Allah Mohamed, was arrested, she described how she took advantage of the fact that the victim's mother was out to kill Israa, while she was playing with her (Ma Sha' Allah's) son.
