A gruesome murder on the first day of Eid Al-Adha has shocked residents of the upscale district of Zamalek, Egypt. Last Thursday, 78-year-old Iqbal Mohamed Hussein and 48-year-old Tamer Tawfik Saeed were murdered in their Zamalek home shortly before dawn by 27-year-old Abdullah Mohieddin Abd el Hafiz. Iqbal was the mother of Egypt’s Ambassador to Zambia while Tamer, an engineer, was the Ambassador’s brother. According to the Cairo Security Directorate, the bodies were discovered after Abd El-Maywood Al-Mohsen Moussa, the building’s porter, had gone up to the apartment to wish Iqbal and Tamer a happy Eid. After ringing the door bell several times, the porter was worried Iqbal, who normally lives alone, had fainted due to her poor health, and decided to enter the house through a window that was left open. As he entered, he saw Tamer’s body on the kitchen floor and then discovered Iqbal, stabbed to death in her bed. Preliminary investigations have revealed that the suspected murderer, Abdullah, had overheard Tamer telling a friend to wake him up for Eid prayers as he is staying alone. Abdullah, who assumed that meant Tamer lived alone, followed Tamer to his mother’s apartment to know…
