A Saudi woman has gone missing in Egypt, barely a week after the bodies of a different Saudi woman and her Kuwaiti daughter were found in a well outside Cairo.

Osama Nugali, spokesman of the Foreign Ministry, said he could not comment on the case of the missing woman at this stage because the Egyptian police were still conducting an investigation into her whereabouts.

Nugali said Ahmad Qattan, Saudi ambassador to Egypt, was following up on the case of the Saudi woman and daughter who were murdered by an Egyptian man in a village in Almanya.

Meanwhile, Abdul Tawwab, the Egyptian arrested for the murder of Saudi woman Mawaddah Fadil Diyab, 60, and her Kuwaiti daughter Aqeelah Abdul Hameed Al-Khameesi, 27, has revealed further details of how the women died. The use of social media by Aqeelah before her murder led to the arrest of the killer, it was found out.

Tawwab, who confessed to the crime, reportedly revealed during further questioning by Egyptian detectives that he had successfully convinced the women to invest in farming land he owned in Samalot city in Almaniya district.

He knew the mother and daughter because he had worked for them in the Gulf, and had planned to leave Almaniya and meet them in Cairo on Sept. 19. He arrived there at sunset.

He said that he had later showed the women the land and wells, which had excited the mother. The daughter had at that stage gone to rest because she was tired.

Tawwab claimed that the mother, while inspecting the well, had slipped and fallen in. He had left her there and then went to see the daughter. When the daughter wanted to see her mother, he told her she was still busy.

When she insisted on seeing her mother, he threatened her with a knife and then stabbed her four times. With the help of his relatives, he pulled her also into the well. He did not know at the time she had sent her friends pictures of the land and wells via social media.

He said his wife and brothers had helped to clean the blood up in the room where she was killed. They had painted the room, he said.

A security official reportedly said SR191,532, in Egyptian pounds, of the women was found in the possession of Tawwab’s wife, Hana Abdul Fattah, who is the second accused.

Nugali said the Kingdom would continue to follow up on cases involving Saudi citizens abroad. He said the ministry was confident that the Egyptian authorities had the expertise to deal with both cases, according to a press report on Wednesday.

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