Caught at last: Last December, a teenage tok-tok driver called Islam el-Anani from the village of el-Awasiga near Hahia in el- Sharqia Governorate died in suspicious circumstances. Two months later, police have arrested two unemployed brothers from Toukh el-Qaramous near Abu Kebir on suspicion of murdering him. Waleed and Ismail Mahmoud (aged 20 and 17 respectively) told detectives that they'd asked the victim to give them a lift in his tok-tok. On the way to their destination, they murdered Islam on a quiet stretch of road. Shortly after that, the deceased was reported missing from home. His tok-tok was found in the canal that passes through the village of Beni Amer, while Islam's body was then found floating in a waterway called Bahr Mowees near the village of Beesha Qaed, not far from el- Zaqaziq. Waleed and his brother said they'd asked Islam to drive them from el-Zaqaziq to Beesha Qaed. On the way, they told him to stop. They tied him up and strangled him, before dumping his body in Bahr Mowees. They then stole some parts from the toktok and dumped it in the canal, having changed its appearance, hoping no-one would recognise it. Saudi slays Sobiha: Police in Saudi Arabia have arrested a man called Yehia el-Zahrani, on suspicion of murdering his Egyptian wife, who was found dead in their flat in el-Batha' district of Riyadh. The suspect was caught after going into hiding when her body was found. The Saudi Consulate in Cairo has expedited the granting of a visa to the brother of the 25-year-old victim, so he can fly to Riyadh. Meanwhile, Ambassador Fawzi e-Ashmawi, the Egyptian Consul General in Riyadh, has delegated Khaled el-Baseer, a legal adviser, to follow the case with the Saudi security authorities. The deceased was named as Sobiha Mohamed, from el-Gharbia Governorate. She and her Saudi husband, 44-year-old Yehia, had only been married for five months. Sobiha was stabbed to death in their second-floor flat in el-Batha'. The alarm was raised when one of the victim's female relatives went round to see her, but no one answered the doorbell. Five fatalities in fire: We've been enjoying some beautiful weather recently, but it still gets quite cold at night. One family of five in Kerdasa, 6th October Governorate, decided to keep warm by sleeping in their home around a large fire made of wood and coal. The parents and their three children all fell asleep and never woke up. They were all burnt to death, when their flat went up in flames - either that or they were asphyxiated by the smoke before being burnt. While they were asleep, the clothes of one of the little children caught fire. It rapidly spread to the furniture, and that was that. When the neighbours, woken by the smell of the smoke, spotted flames shooting out of the windows of their home, they called the Fire Brigade. But it was too late to save them. What contributed to the ferocity of the blaze was that the children's mother had used so much firewood in the first place. The names of the children who died were given as Gamal Sayyed (four); his threeyear- old sister, Salwa; and their 12-monthold brother, Mahmoud.
