Egyptian authorities arrest father, brother and uncle over canal murder of divorced woman

Egyptian security forces have arrested three relatives of a divorced woman whose body was found slaughtered in a canal in Al-Ayat, Giza.

• Police found the body of a woman in her 20s, a divorcée, bearing slit-throat wounds, floating in the Gizawiya canal in Al-Ayat.
• Investigators identified the perpetrators as the victim's father, 50, her brother, 26, and her maternal uncle.
• The three confessed to drugging her with sedatives, slashing her throat with a knife, and dumping her body in the canal by car.
• The public prosecutor ordered the three detained for four days pending investigation.