/ 19 August 2001

CAIRO MAN KILLS ‘DISHONOURED’ DAUGHTER

A WORKER from southern Egypt forced his daughter to swallow poison to kill herself, deeming she was dishonoured, the al-Ahram daily reported on Thursday. The woman, Enaan Mohamed (23) had fled to Cairo a year earlier after a failed marriage. She was then taken against her will to the family home in Sohaq in Upper Egypt, and forced by her father, Mohamed Sadek Mohamed, 52, to take poison, the paper said. The father, who then secretively buried his daughter, was arrested and taken to court, while several accomplices, including the girl’s mother, were being sought by the police. – AFP