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April 2010 - News
April 2010

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Young woman escapes honour killing

Several family members of a young woman who gave birth to a child out of wedlock at Aleppo University Hospital gathered outside the building demanding she be handed over to be killed, the private website Day Press reported on March 7.

The young woman had been taken to the hospital after suffering from colic and digestive problems.

“Medical tests showed that the woman was seven months pregnant when she arrived at the hospital,” an anonymous source at the hospital told Day Press. “To save her and the foetus, a Caesarean was conducted. The baby was put in an incubator and the mother has been sent to a safe place until the issue is resolved with the family.”

Aleppo University Hospital Director Mahmoud Tassabehji said the young woman’s family had signed a document stating that they will not harm or kill her if she is returned to them, Day Press reported on March 16. He added that the young woman had not yet returned to her family.

The father of the child has been arrested for committing adultery. Both families are reportedly attempting to persuade him to marry the young woman.

Airport officials seize two gold smugglers

Customs officials at Damascus International Airport detained two girls for trying to smuggle golden ingots from Syria into Egypt, the private website Syria News reported on March 10.

Damascus International Airport Customs head Nizar Asa’ad said the two girls were trying to smuggle 1.86kg of gold at an estimated value of around SYP 3m (USD 65,000). The girls had hidden the gold in several boxes of sweets.

“The girls claimed they didn’t know they had any gold in their boxes,” Asa’ad said. “They said they had been asked to deliver the boxes to an Egyptian as a gift.”

Investigations into the incident are still ongoing, Syria News reported.

Four Syrians dies in car crash in Dubai

Four young Syrians died in a traffic accident in Dubai, the private website Day Press reported on March 2.

Few details of the accident are known, but the car reportedly swerved several times before spinning off the Emirates Road in Dubai, close to the city’s Global Village shopping mall.

Three of the young men, working as builders in Dubai, were killed immediately. Hadi Ayyasheh, the fourth man, was taken to Dubai’s Rashid Hospital, where he later died from his injuries.