/ 20 August 2001

DRUNK EGYPTIAN TOSSES DAUGHTER OFF 7TH FLOOR

EGYPTIAN police have arrested a drunken Egyptian man who threw his seven-year-old daughter from the second floor of his building in Cairo, the government Al-Ahram newspaper reported on Sunday. The girl, Hamida Mustafa, is in a coma after being taken to hospital by neighbours suffering injuries about her body. The father, who is divorced from the girl’s mother, allegedly beat his children frequently according to the newspaper. – AFP