The Egyptian Public Prosecution decided to imprison five children on charges of killing a young man with bags of water in Ismailia Governorate, east of the country.
Major General Mansour Lashin, Ismailia Security Director, had received a notification stating that a young man in his forties, Hisham Zakaria, working as a director of a tourism company, had died of a heart attack.
In an official statement on Sunday evening, the Public Prosecution announced the detention of 5 children between the ages of fifteen and eighteen, pending investigation, for having committed the crime of deliberately beating the young man, which led to his death, and for using force once morest him with the intention of harming him.
The prosecution interrogated the five perpetrators of the crime, and reached their agreement to throw plastic bags full of water at passersby out of joking, and one of them threw a bag at the deceased while he was sitting in a café in Ismailia, hitting his face, which prompted him to scold them and run behind the hospital, but he fell to the ground where A. Died .
The Public Prosecution decided to imprison the five accused for 4 days in preparation for the completion of the investigations.
