Farshout police in Qena received a hospital report that a housewife from the district had arrived dead with a gunshot wound to the chest.[1] The woman and her brother’s son, a worker from the same district, were grazing their sheep in a desert area of Farshout when two men on a motorcycle, one carrying an automatic rifle, tried to steal one of the sheep.[1] When the two tried to stop them, one suspect fired at them, killing the housewife, and both suspects fled without completing the theft.[1] Investigators identified the two as dangerous criminal elements previously accused in cases including premeditated murder, drug trafficking, unlicensed firearms, armed robbery and resisting the authorities.[1] Police said the two were wanted for arrest in drugs, firearms, armed robbery and murder cases and were hiding in Sohag Governorate.[1]
A force including the Central Security Forces moved against the suspects in Sohag, and after the suspects opened fire on the officers, both were killed in the resulting exchange.[1] Police killed the two suspects in Sohag after they opened fire on the force, and officers seized two automatic rifles and about 2 kg of hashish from them.[1] Police said the necessary legal measures were taken in the case.[1]
Mobtada dates the sheep-grazing shooting to the 9th of the month and gives the same account of the attempted theft, the fatal shooting and the suspects’ flight.[2] Youm7 independently corroborates the seizure of two automatic rifles and 2 kg of hashish from the two suspects.[3]
