Cairo: An Egyptian man killed his wife and six children before attempting to take his own life, local media reported Friday.
The seven bodies, including eight-month twins, were found inside the family’s house in a village in the southern governorate of Fayyum early Friday.
The man reportedly murdered the seven using a knife. He later went to a bakery he rents in the village and set it on fire in a suicide attempt. But he was rescued and handed over to police.
Security forces rushed to the scene and cordoned it off as bodies were transferred to a local morgue.
Cairo: An Egyptian man has killed his mother-in-law who was being treated at a governmental in a Delta province north of Cairo after she refused to agree on the return of his estranged wife, local media reported.
The man’s wife recently left the marital house for her family’s house in the provincial governorate of Al Sharqia due to a dispute with him. He tried unsuccessfully to patch up things with her.
In a new attempt to settle the dispute, the man, a worker, went to visit his ill mother-in-law at the Zagazig University Hospital in Al Sharqia. During the visit, he pressed for the return of his wife, but her mother refused his demand, according to reports.