Egypt: Her mother and uncle brutally murdered her after she refused a rich and disabled groom

Al-Basateen area, in Cairo Governorate, Egypt, witnessed a heinous crime recently, after a housewife, with the help of her brother, killed her daughter and threw her body from the fifth floor, because she refused to marry a wealthy young man, who suffers from a mental disorder.

An Egyptian security source told Sky News Arabia that the victim, "Dunia A.", is 17 years old, who was staying with her mother, Heba, 42, a housewife, in the Basateen area.

And that the victim's uncle brought her a "rich" groom to marry her, but he suffers from a mental disability, which led the girl to refuse to marry him, but the mother stuck to the rich groom and tried, with the help of her brother, to force the girl to marry him against her will.

The security source indicated that the girl asked her father to stand by her and protect her from the oppression of her mother and uncle. The father intervened, defending his daughter's right to refuse her to the groom, but he was severely beaten and brutally assaulted by his wife and brother.

The victim’s uncle and mother expelled the father from the house, as a form of punishment, so he fled to live with his son in an apartment in Al-Manial, Giza Governorate, Egypt.

And the source added, "After the girl's father moved to his son's house, the girl found herself alone in front of her mother's stubbornness and oppression, who insisted on her marriage to the rich young man, her uncle's friend, and all the girl's attempts to sympathize with her mother failed, but she decided to stand firm in her position in rejecting the groom.

According to the security source, the girl's mother and her brother beat the victim, because of her insistence on refusing the rich groom, until the girl breathed her last, and they agreed together, to throw her body from the balcony of the house on the fifth floor, to hide the crime and show that the girl committed suicide by throwing herself From the fifth floor, due to a psychological crisis.

The girl's uncle rushed to inform the health inspector, to obtain a burial permit, claiming that the death was natural, but the health inspector suspected that there was a criminal suspicion behind the incident and rushed to inform the security services.

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