CAIRO (Middle East Eye) – A young woman was reportedly killed in Egypt for rejecting a man’s advances in the latest high-profile incident of femicide in the country in recent months. Amany Abdel Karim, aged 19 and a student at Menoufia University in northern Egypt, was killed in her village allegedly by a man whose offer of marriage was rejected by her family. Ahmed Fathy Omaira, 29, later also shot himself, with the security services finding his body by a roadside, according to a statement by the interior ministry. Egypt has recently witnessed a spate of men killing women for rejecting their advances.