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25 April 2024

Egyptian kills little son and buries body at home

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An Egyptian man killed his 3-year-old son and buried the body at home but the murder was discovered and the man was arrested after he was reported by his two elder sons.

Salah Amin, a 40-year-old taxi driver in the Egyptian Mediterranean port of Alexandria, had falsely reported that his two sons, 12 and 9 years, had been kidnapped.

But it emerged later that they had fled home to their divorced mother and told her about the murder. The mother informed the police, who raided Amin ‘s apartment and found the decomposed body of his son, Bassim, buried under the floor.

Al Ahram Arabic language daily described the crime as a “heinous murder that moved the society in Alexandria, Egypt’s second largest city