CAIRO - An Egyptian man beat his 17-year-old daughter to death after she received a phone call from her boyfriend, a police official told AFP on Wednesday. The 45-year-old farmer identified as Mursi A. from the Nile Delta province of Kafr el-Sheikh, caught his daughter Nur talking to her boyfriend on the phone and “beat her with a large stick before electrocuting her,” the official said.Relations between unmarried men and women are deemed improper in Egyptian conservative society, particularly in rural areas.
The police were alerted to the crime after the girlÂ’s body was taken to a nearby hospital, the official said, adding that Mursi was later arrested.
Last May, a farmer from the conservative south of Egypt decapitated his daughter after discovering she had a boyfriend.