Cairo: Seven members of one family had been found dead inside their house in a village in Egypt’s Nile Delta, local police said.
###
The victims included the head of the family, his wife, his mother and four children.
###
Preliminary investigations revealed that unidentified perpetrators fatally stabbed the father and his eldest 15-year-old son before setting ablaze the semi-detached house in the Delta province of Beheira, according to security sources.
###
The other fatalities, including two children aged three and four years, apparently died of burns.
###
###
The family’s two-floor house is located inside farmland around 400 metres from the main village, a matter that made the mystery crime discovered on Sunday— hours after it was committed.
###
Police believe that the crime had been perpetrated by more than one person, making it difficult for any member of the family to escape and seek help from locals.
###
Relatives said the family was on good terms with others.
###
“My uncle was a wallpainter and was a peaceful person,” Saad Ashraf, 19, told private newspaper Al Masry Al Youm.
###
However, the crime is believed to have been perpetrated out of revenge.
Click Here: paco rabanne perfume###
Investigations revealed that the murdered father was a witness in a court case in which 11 defendants were later given 10 years in prison each, private newspaper Al Watan reported.
###
Local prosecutors are investigating that case amid a massive police hunt for the suspects including friends and ex-cons.
###