Cairo - An Egyptian society supposedly raising abandoned illegitimate children is under investigation after a parliamentary complaint that it had been killing them to sell body parts to hospitals, police sources said yesterday.
Ten parliamentary deputies filed a complaint to the general prosecutor alleging that a children's organisation in Minufiya, 60 km north-west of Cairo, was selling body parts of children under 13 years of age to privately-run hospitals, police said.
They said the deputies became suspicious when 25 out of a total of 32 children in the society died over the last three months. The members of parliament alleged that these illegal deals, involving large sums of money, occur with the knowledge and collaboration of certain powerful figures.