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A muezzin in Egypt was brutally killed after Tarawih prayers because of a dispute over the call to prayer at the mosque. Photo/SINDOnews.com/Illustration
CAIRO – A muezzin volunteer killed brutally by two people in Alexandria, Egypt, shortly after Tarawih prayers at the Mohammad Hassan Mosque. This murder took place on the second day of Ramadan.
The perpetrators confessed to committing this heinous act because the victim had prevented their father from calling the call to prayer.
The victim, Sheikh Hassan Al Koumi, was a volunteer muezzin at a Mohammad Hassan Mosque in the Wardian area of Alexandria.
The police were alerted soon after the incident, and the perpetrators were arrested and confessed to their crimes.
Both confess that their father complained about the muezzin, and they committed murder in response.
Eyewitnesses reported that the victim was a loved member of society. The victim had refused to allow the perpetrator’s father to call the call to prayer for the Maghrib and Isya prayers on the second day of Ramadan, which caused him to leave the mosque before the Tarawih prayers and complained to his son.
Hearing their father’s complaint, the two perpetrators went to meet the muezzin, and a fight ensued, in which the perpetrators stabbed the victim to death.
The Waqf Directorate in Alexandria, as quoted from Gulf News, Tuesday (28/3/2023), ensured that the victim was not an accredited muezzin from the Waqf Agency and was not affiliated with the directorate. However, the victims were local residents who used to call the call to prayer for people and lead them in several prayers.
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