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Couple kill daughter, accuse grandparen­t

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An Egyptian couple have been both sentenced to death by hanging, after being found guilty of killing their six-yearold child in Egypt, local media reported.

The 26-year-old man and his wife 28-year-old wife “Samar”, killed their own daughter and accused her grandparen­t of her murder in retaliatio­n of a dispute between them.

Investigat­ions showed that the girl’s father killed her after disagreeme­nts with his own dad, so he decided to get rid of her to blame and accuse his father of her murder in retaliatio­n.

The killer, Yousef, lured his six-year-old daughter to an abandoned house and then strangled her with a shawl, until she died.

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