KUWAIT: Egyptian security sources said Minya police found the bodies of a Saudi woman and her Kuwaiti daughter, who had been missing in Egypt for three weeks, in a well on a farm yesterday. An Egyptian man is suspected in their murders. The Saudi woman, 61, and her Kuwaiti daughter, 27, went to Cairo in August on an invitation from the Egyptian suspect. The women wanted to buy a flat and had a large amount of money with them, but all contact was later lost with them.

The women were killed in a village near a desert expressway and their bodies dumped in a 20-m deep well. Informed sources had earlier said Egyptian national security had recently interrogated the woman’s brother and sister after summoning them to Cairo, where they inquired about all their relatives and acquaintances in Egypt. The sources noted that the Kuwaiti embassy in Cairo had also started an investigation to locate the two missing women. — Agencies