Egyptian Attorney General’s Office orders preventive detention mother accused of dismembering her five-year-old son “deliberately” in order to, according to local media reports, bite.

The public ministry said in a statement that the woman was imprisoned on charges of “deliberately killing her five-year-old son with an axe.”

She admitted the crime prior to interrogation at the prosecutor’s office.

According to the police report, the murder took place in the city of Faqous in northern Egypt, where the defendant “killed her son, dismembered him and hid the body parts inside the house.”

Authorities are continuing to investigate the event and motive for the murder, and they have found the weapon used to carry out the crime, the text says.

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For its part, the Egyptian press noted that a woman in her 30s dismembered a minor with a “butcher’s knife” and placed several of his limbs in a cauldron to cook and eat him, according to preliminary investigation and witness testimony.

According to The Heritage Times, Hanaa, as she identified herself, apparently separated from her husband for several years and told police that she had no intention of killing her son Yousef and that she was “suffering from a mental illness.” do it.

Because of this, she will undergo a mental health examination.

The remains of the child’s body were handed over to the authorities conducting the investigation. (EFE)