Afghanistan: Female bomber detonates explosives, killing her three children and an officer
Egypt: Man rapes 2-year-old grand-daughter, mother kills her to avert scandal
KABUL — An Afghan official says a woman detonated her explosives’ vest at a checkpoint in eastern Nangarhar province, killing her three children and an officer who stopped their suspicious-looking car.
Attaullah Khugyani, the provincial governor’s spokesman, said Friday the attack happened late Thursday in the provincial capital of Jalalabad.
An Afghan security official says officers from the NDS intelligence service stopped the car with the woman, her children and four men at the checkpoint.
The woman and the children got out. The official says they couldn’t the Afghan languages of Pashto and Dari and appeared to be speaking Russian. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he isn’t authorized to talk to reporters.
It’s unclear what happened to the men in the car.
Egypt: Man rapes 2-year-old grand-daughter, mother kills her to avert scandal
An Egyptian man pulled his two-year-old granddaughter from her mother’s arms while she was asleep and raped her, prompting the mother to kill her daughter to avert a scandal, newspapers in the Arab country reported on Thursday.
The 59-year-old grandfather, identified as Faraj, waited for his daughter Merfat, 23, to go to bed before pulling her daughter out of bed and raping her in his room at their house in the East-central town of Sohag.
Newspapers said the mother, after discovering what happened, drowned her daughter in a water bucket to avert a scandal in the conservative countryside town.
Police arrested the mother and her father on murder and rape charges, they added.
