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A 24-year-old Egyptian woman, Maryam Saleh has been killed after a group of men dragged her through the streets with their van.
Maryam was walking home from work when three men allegedly harassed her sexually and catcalled her. When she tried to escape, one of them grabbed her handbag. The van accelerated and Maryam was dragged behind the vehicle.
Her body was found in Maadi covered in fractures and wounds inflicted from being dragged under the wheels and then hitting a parked car. She died before she got to the hospital.
The incident and the perpetrators were caught on camera and the footage was investigated by police.
Yesterday, Egypt’s prosecution ordered the arrest of the men charged with sexually harassing, dragging and killing a woman in Cairo’s Maadi suburb, reported the state-run Al-Ahram.
However, the Public Prosecution has now released a statement claiming that the men were trying to steal Mariam’s handbag, rather than that she was the victim of sexual harassment, reports Egyptian Streets.
