An Egyptian housewife and her husband's brother have been accused of kidnapping and slaughtering her daughter, the Egyptian newspaper Al Shorouk reported.

The newspaper added that the housewife, who lives in a village in the governorate of Qena, south of Cairo, claimed that her brother-in-law kidnapped her daughter and slaughtered because of differences over the distribution of inheritance.

Investigations revealed that the daughter was not harmed and that she was alive, but her mother fabricated the charge to her brother-in-law because of differences between them over the distribution of inheritance, and that her husband hid his daughter in an apartment in a neighboring city in agreement with the wife, and they were arrested.