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August 28, 2000
CAIRO (AP) - Eighteen cats stood vigil for a week over the body of their master and attacked policemen who came to remove his corpse, police said Saturday. Bahgat Mostafa Said, 63, a retired civil servant, loved cats. He had 18 of them. And they loved him. When Said died Aug. 19 in his apartment in the Cairo suburb of Heliopolis, his cats rallied round, meowing and watching over him. A week later police came to investigate a smell coming from the apartment. They found Said surrounded by his family. When police officers approached the body, the cats set upon them, scratching ferociously, a police spokesman said on condition of anonymity. It took the officers no less than two hours to remove the cats before they could retrieve Said's body. The police spokesman said appeared to have died of natural causes. An autopsy will be carried out. The cats refused food offered to them by the police. They are in mourning. |