Qalyubiya security forces, with the help of intelligence services, succeeded in capturing five men accused of kidnapping a boy, Abānūb Ashraf from in front of Shubrā al-Khaymah and asking for a two million Egyptian pound ransom from his father. The men took the boy from in front of the church after distracting his father amid panic created by firing shots into the air. A priest informed the security services of the events, and Major General Mahmūd Yūsrī, head of al-Qayubia Security Department, formed a search team. The investigations of Colonel Jamāl al-Dighaydī, head of Shubrā al-Khaymah criminal investigation, found that two of the five accused had been identified by an eyewitness on a farm in al-Sālahīya where they were hiding the boy. Security forces surrounded the farm and apprehended the five without any resistance, who were in possession of three rifles and over a hundred rounds of ammunition (Nūr Abū Sirī', al-Ahrām, Apr. 5, p. 40). Read original text in Arabic.