Egyptian media reported that during a reconciliation meeting on Tuesday evening, a horrific massacre took place in a residential apartment in the province of Alexandria, during which a husband shot and killed his wife, her family and his children, killing seven people and injuring his eldest son. According to the newspaper Al-Masri Al-Youm, preliminary investigation showed that until the accused went to his wife’s family home to negotiate the details of a divorce between them or try to convince her to return to the family home where she stayed with Mother.
The investigation added that after the dispute between the two sides continued during the reconciliation meeting, the accused took out the firearms he had and opened fire on everyone, killing his wife, her father, her mother, her brother and three of his children and wounding the fourth, after which closed the apartment door and left the crime scene.
And the Masrawy newspaper reported that residents of the area considered the sounds of shots to be fireworks and did not suspect it. The wife’s sister discovered the crime when she went to her family’s home, where she was surprised to see the victims soaked in their blood, while her sister’s eldest son, who was six years old, was alive with several bullet wounds to his shoulder. and legs, “and it was he who told them that his father opened fire on the whole family.”
The child was taken to the hospital, and a brigade of the prosecutor’s office went to the scene for examination. The newspaper Al-Shoruk reported that the victims were a two-year-old boy and two girls of three and four years old, while the accused killed his wife, father, mother and brother.
The prosecutor’s office ordered the autopsy of the dead, the speedy investigation of the incident, the arrest of the accused and the weapons used in the accident. The newspaper added that the accused works as a “police secretary” and surrendered to the security forces, while Al-Masri Al-Youm newspaper reported that he was a 40-year-old “driver”. According to Al-Shoruk, on Wednesday the prosecutor’s office of Tan Al-Raml in Alexandria decided to detain the accused for 4 days as a precautionary measure until the investigation is completed.
