Two Egyptian Brothers butcher their Mother, Sister and Aunt in honor killing
Egyptian police arrived on scene in a village called Assuit to discover a massacre.
Map of Egypt showing Asyut governorate Photo/Golbez via wikimedia commons
According toYoum7, two brothers slaughtered their mother, sister, and aunt, “after discovering their sister’s actions were contrary to morality.”
Events in the home erupted into chaos, including gunfire. Police arrived, surrounded and then broke into the home.
The pairs Aunt, Saida Muhammad Mukhtar, 55-years-old and a housewife, “with her head sliced off”; their Mother, Amina Ahmed Muhammad, also 55 and a housewife, found “drowned in blood by the entrance of the house”; and their sister, Sana Mukhtar, 39-years-old and a widow, found butchered in a room.
The two brothers are Ahmed Mukhtar, age 35, and Abd al-Basit, age24.
Both were subsequently arrested, and confessed to the murders as the bodies were transported to a hospital in Assiut.
(Note: Assuit is also spelled Asyut)
