Bloodshed grips Egypt

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Rania, 27, travelled with her husband and two children to Alexandria, northern Egypt, for a holiday on the Mediterranean coast.

She never returned home alive.

She was killed by a beach worker in the El-Agami area after a dispute over a seat overlooking the sea.

The incident, which took place on an Egyptian beach recently, was not a scene from a dramatic film.

It was a real-life episode in a wave of violent killings that has shocked Egyptians throughout August.

The country has been rocked by a series of family killings and bloody massacres that have claimed dozens of lives in the space of a single month.

The spate of violence has raised questions about the increase in killings and […]

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