Swerve and run: A tok-tok was to blame for a privately owned car ending up in a canal in an area where land is being reclaimed for agricultural purposes, outside a village near Qaleen, not far from Dessouq, Kafr el-Sheikh governorate. The driver of the car, a civil servant, and his two children drowned in the accident. River Rescue pulled the stricken vehicle out of the canal, near the village of Kafr el-Gazaeer, and retrieved the bodies of Sameh Abdou and his children – Rana (20) and her 12-year-old brother, Amr. The family were driving home to the nearby village of el-Ghaneemi, when Sameh had to swerve violently to avoid a tok-tok coming the other way on the wrong side of the road, as a result of which they ended up in the drink. The tok-tok drove off; no-one knows who was driving it. Bastinadoed body on the bridge: Police have made an arrest in the case of a girl whose body was found wrapped in a blanket on the bridge over the canal that runs through the village of Sibtas near Tanta in el-Gharbia governorate. They have arrested her father, who'd beaten her feet and her legs to punish her for going out to see her grandmother without his permission. It must have been a terrible beating, because she died of the shock. Her father then dumped her body and reported her missing from home. The suspect, a scrap metal dealer called Anwar Maher, aka Waleed Khamees, has admitted killing his 12-year-old daughter, Dalia. He'd forbidden her from ever going to see her maternal grandmother, after he'd divorced Dalia's mother four years ago. Anwar's bastinadoed his daughter when she got back from school after sitting one of her end-of-year exams, using an aluminium pipe. When Dalia died, he called a health inspector, who refused to issue a death certificate for her. Battle of the boundary: Four farmers died when two families clashed with knives in an argument over the boundary between their fields in Malawi, el-Minya governorate. The violence flared between the families of Shaaban Attia and Sayyed Shehata. The deceased were named as Mohamed Shaaban Attia (36); Ragab Sayyed Shehata (59); and Ragab's two sons, Faraag (32) and Saber (28). Faraag and Saber's younger brother, Gamal (18) was stabbed and injured, along with four others. The two families had fallen out several times in the past over the boundary. Each time, the village elders had managed to smooth things over, but not on this occasion. Both sides were well provisioned with weapons before they met in the fields to battle it out. Sentenced to swing in Suez: Suez Criminal Court has sentenced to death a man called Hamed Soleiman (38), having found him guilty of the murder of General Ibrahim Abdel-Maaboud, Suez governorate's most senior detective. In the same case, Saleem Salem (19) has been sentenced to 30 years in prison, Khalaf Mohamed (46) to life (25 years) and Atef Salama (42) to five years. The trial of the four accused was held amidst tight security. General Ibrahim's family expressed their pleasure at the verdict. All four men were members of a dangerous gang of drug dealers, who turned violent when the police cornered them.
