Girl, 4, sacrificed to get hidden treasure

A 4-year-old girl was reportedly sacrificed by herTukTuk driver uncle to get hidden treasure.

According to police records, the victim as found by her parents lying in a pool of blood with deep injuries to her neck.

Initial investigations led police to identify the killer, to be her uncle. Upon being interrogated, he admitted that a sorcerer advised him to kill his niece as a sacrifice to the djinn to get a hidden treasure

Some looters in Egypt are now turning to djinns in their hunt for gold. A few gold seekers even go so far as to try to get a djinn to possess them.

Looters in Egypt tend to use metal detectors at excavated archaeological sites hoping to find valuable artefacts.