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29 March 2024

Teen girl ends life over head-scarf tiff with father

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A 15-year-old Egyptian girl committed a suicide by shooting herself after she was rebuked by her father for refusing to wear a scarf on her head.

The girl used her father’s gun to shoot herself at their house in Giza, just outside the Egyptian capital Cairo, according to police.

Police arrested the father who reported his daughter’s death for investigation on whether the incident involved any criminal act.

Child bitten by snake…mum dies

A Saudi child was bitten by a snake while playing outside his house in the Gulf Kingdom but he was saved while his mother died.

The shocked mother screamed and threw her little son into the car before she got behind the wheel in violation of local laws and drove him to hospital.

“Doctors managed to save the boy but the mother died of severe hypertension,” Al Jazeira Arabic language daily said in a report from the western town of Taif. It did not specify the boy’s age.

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