In a heinous crime, a university student, Naiyera Ashraf’s throat was slit open, in front of the university gate in Egypt, by her colleague after she refused to marry him.
Naiyera was 21 years old.
The horrific scene took place at the gate of Mansoura University, Egypt, on Monday afternoon, when Naiyera was murdered in front of the university after her colleague slaughtered with a knife.
The suspect was caught at the crime scene. Passersby were able to catch the suspect and handed him over to the police.
Through the preliminary investigation, the security teams in Al Mansoura city learnt that the victim was a third-year student in the Faculty of Arts, Mansoura University, and the killer was a student of the same division at the university.
Eyewitnesses explained that the accused used to harass and chase the victim and that he proposed to her but she rejected him.
She also blocked him on all her social media accounts.
They also noted that the accused beat the victim up until she fell to the ground, as her head crashed to the sidewalk then slaughtered her neck, before the university guards held him.
They also added that it was not the first time for the accused to chase after the girl, as he opposed and chased her several times before, but she reprimanded him and rejected him until he committed his crime and tried to disfigure his face after the crime.
The Egyptian Attorney general Hamada El Sawy ordered to remand university student, 21-year-old Mohammed, Adel in pretrial detention after he confessed to murdering Naiyera.
In a statement, El Sawy stated that he had ordered the detention of the suspect, Mohammed Adel, for 4 days pending investigations, on charges of premeditated murder of student Naiyera in front of Mansoura University in Dakahlia Governorate.
Witnesses, including the girl’s parents, affirmed that the suspect constantly harassed the victim due to the failure of their relationship and her rejection of him, and that customary sessions were held and official records were issued against him more than two months before to take his pledge not to harass her anymore.
The short video stirred anger among Egyptians on social media platforms, and one of them wrote: “It is a painful incident and a heinous crime, which requires the whole society to take more care of their sons and daughters, raise them on authentic values and develop their religious faith.”
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