CAIRO: A 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 Nour talking to her boyfriend on the phone and beat her with a large stick before electrocuting her, the official said.
The police were alerted to the crime after the girl 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. -AFP
