Three women killed east of central Gaza: witnesses

July 23, 2007 (People's Daily Online) Three Palestinian women were found killed early on Sunday in an opened area east of the central Gaza Strip town of Deir el-Ballah, eyewitnesses and police sources reported.

The witnesses said that an unknown Palestinian car dumped the bodies of the three slain women in an abandoned area east of the town and fled the area, adding that they immediately called Hamas executive security forces.

A Hamas security force accompanied with two ambulances arrived at the scene, where the bodies had been half buried by sands, said the eyewitnesses.

An officer in the Hamas executive security force said the bodies of the three women had been taken to hospital, and that his force "would investigate the circumstances of the crime."

Doctors at al-Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza Strip said that the three women were stabbed to death by knives overnight before their bodies were thrown away early on Sunday.

The eyewitnesses said that the bodies belong to a mother and two of her daughters, however neither medical nor security sources know any further detail about the killings.

It is the first significant crime occurred in the Gaza Strip after Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip on June 14.

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