U.S. tourist arrested over stabbing an Egyptian in Luxor

Security services in Luxor arrested a US citizen on Thursday on charges of stabbing an Egyptian with a knife.

Head of Luxor Security Directorate Mostafa Salah Eddin received a communication stating that a US tourist stabbed Abdel Nasser Alaa with a knife. The preliminary investigation revealed that the tourist resides in a hut on the Nile in the village of Baiyrat.

He stabbed Alaa in his hand and escaped before the police arrested him.

Source: Al-Masry Al-Youm