MAKKAH, 3 March — A father of seven was killed here on Friday during a family squabble, Okaz daily reported yesterday. The paper said police in Mansoura arrested the victim’s brother-in-law, who allegedly clubbed the man to death.

Family sources said the dead man and his wife were not on good terms for more than a month.

The scuffle started when the woman came to her husband’s house along with her brother on Friday to collect her children’s books as schools were reopening yesterday.