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An Egyptian man has shot his wife, three other family members and himself during a reconciliation session to save their marriage in Cairo just weeks after the couple got married.
According to Al Jazeera Arabic, on Friday night the husband, 22-year-old Shams Sharif, concealed a gun in a bag and took it to the meeting between the two families in the il neighbourhood of the capital.
As the discussion heated up and the families tried to resolve a dispute, he became angry and shot his wife, Nour Ghazal, 20, and her mother, 58-year-old Mona Mohamed.
Local newspapers have reported that the husband’s sister, Sherine, 42, and her husband Khaled Mohamed, 53, were also shot before Shams shot himself.
The neighbours heard the gunshots and called the police. None of the five people survived.
The husband, who was a scrap dealer, was reportedly admitted to a psychiatric clinic several months before the murder.
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