A CASH-strapped Egyptian cement worker has been sentenced to death for murdering and robbing a man to buy an engagement ring for his beloved. Wael Salam, 27, was found guilty of luring co-worker Haitham Omar on a day off to their cement factory in the southern town of Luxor, where he hit him on the head with an iron bar before stabbing him repeatedly. The court heard how Salam stole 490 Egyptian pounds from the dead man to buy the ring before throwing his body into an open sewer. – AFP