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Teacher goes on trial for killing a Student whose Homework was Late.
The Egyptian kid was 11 years old.
The Egyptian kid was 11 years old.
A teacher has gone on trial in Egypt on charges of beating to death an 11-year-old pupil for not doing his homework.
Haitham Nabeel Abdelhamid, 23, is accused of beating Islam Badr Ibrahim with a ruler before taking him outside the class and hitting him savagely in the stomach.
The boy then collapsed in a faint and was taken to hospital - but he died of heart failure.
The attack, which took place in October at the Saad Othman primary school near the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, caused national outrage in a country where people are already sceptical about the state.