Poisoned Bread Ends the Life of a Family in Upper Egypt .. and the Ministry of Interior Reveals the Killer

In a shocking crime that shook Egyptian public opinion, the Ministry of Interior revealed yesterday, Sunday, August 24, the details of the humanitarian disaster that occurred in Minya Governorate in southern Egypt, after a father and his six children died under mysterious circumstances, before the horrific background was revealed.

According to an official statement issued by the Egyptian Ministry of Interior, intensive investigations showed that the father's second wife was behind the horrific incident, as she poisoned the meal she prepared for the family, using a toxic substance that she placed in "sun bread", a type of popular bread famous in Upper Egypt.

According to what Ali Muhammad, the uncle of the victim children, stated, the last gathering of the family was at the dinner table, where everyone ate the sun bread, and within hours, the nightmare of poison began to creep into the children's bodies.

The grieving uncle added that the first child began to feel severe nausea and a sudden rise in temperature, so he was immediately taken to the hospital, but soon the second child followed with the same symptoms, then the third, and the tragedy escalated rapidly, as the three children passed away in succession.

The tragic scene did not stop there, as the fourth child joined them, while the fifth girl, "Rahma", was in relatively stable condition, but she soon met the same fate within a few hours.

As for the sixth girl, she was undergoing some medical tests inside the hospital when the fatal symptoms struck her, leading to her later announced death as well.

Investigations by the Ministry of Interior revealed that the motive behind the heinous crime was jealousy and revenge, as the father's wife executed her crime after her husband took back his ex-wife _the first wife_ into his custody, which angered her and made her believe he intended to divorce her, prompting her to seek revenge in the most horrific ways.

Simultaneously with the incident, widespread rumors circulated claiming that the six children died due to meningitis, which caused widespread panic in Egyptian streets, prompting the Ministry of Health to issue an official statement denying those claims.

The ministry confirmed that the precise laboratory analyses of blood, urine, and cerebrospinal fluid samples proved that the children were free from any infectious diseases, including viral or bacterial meningitis.

It also showed that the water samples from the family's home met health standards, reinforcing the hypothesis of deliberate poisoning as the primary cause of death.

This painful incident, which claimed the lives of a father and six innocent children, continues to dominate the concerns of the Egyptian street, amid widespread calls for the harshest penalties to be imposed on the perpetrator, who not only extinguished the light of the father's life but also extended her hand to kill children who were innocent except for being her husband's offspring.