ISMAILIYA: Eleven members of an Egyptian Bedouin tribe have been sentenced to death for killing a member of a rival tribe in front of his wife and young children.
Judge Fathi Mohammed Anwar Ezzat of the Ismailiya Criminal Court sentenced the 11 to death – 10 of them in absentia – and handed their papers over to Egypt s top Muslim cleric or mufti to sign their execution orders.
In Egypt, death sentences have to be approved by the mufti as being in line with Islamic law.
The 11 were found guilty of shooting at the car of Mussa Mohammed Mussa, 40, as he traveled with his family from the Red Sea town of Tur to the resort of Sharm El-Sheikh, killing him and wounding his wife and two children.
The court said a tribal dispute was behind the attack.
