Suez Police save woman from abduction, rape

Security forces managed to thwart an attempted kidnapping at the Martyr Ahmed Hamdi tunnel in Suez, Egypt on Monday. A police car travelling through the tunnel noticed a micro-bus speeding above the limit and the screams of a female passenger calling for help.  Major Tamer Tawaland and First Lieutenant Helmy Gamal chased the bus, forcing it to an eventual stop. The woman, Sabah Abdul Rahman Abdullah, a 25-year-old housewife, was travelling on the bus with her young son. Abdullah was on her way back from hospital when she noticed that the driver, Alrhiv Hassan Mohamed Rizk, 44, had changed the bus’s destination to another male passenger’s, Harbi Mustafa Hussein, 45. The pair intended to kidnap Abdullah and rape her. Upon searching the vehicle the police also found around 10 grams of marijuana. The defendants pleaded guilty of all charges. The pair awaits prosecution.