New murder in Egypt of a young woman for rejecting a marriage proposal

Another young woman has been shot dead in Egypt by a man whose marriage proposal she had rejected, less than

police reported Sunday

(north).

According to the police investigation, the crime occurred on Saturday night in the village of Touj, in the province of Menufiya, when the alleged murderer,

, shot

, a source from the Menufiya province police station told Efe.

The informant explained that the motive for the murder was the rejection of the young woman and her family to the marriage proposal by her victimizer, due to his

.

According to eyewitnesses, the murderer

the young woman in the back with a gun in front of her family's house and then fled the scene.

The crime is very similar to the one that occurred at the end of June at the university of Mansura, located in the Nile delta, just like Menufiya, when

by a colleague who had threatened to kill her.

death if he did not marry her.

This murder sparked a

in a country where hundreds of women die each year as a result of gender-based violence and its perpetrator was sentenced to death just nine days later.

In 2021,

, data obtained by the Observatory of Crimes of Violence against Women in Egypt from local media news and statements from the Prosecutor's Office due to the lack of statistics in the African country.

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