Maid kills employer's Indonesian wife

An Ethiopian housemaid killed the Indonesian wife of her Saudi employer by stabbing her many times after an argument at their home in the Gulf Kingdom.

Police arrested the maid after she was stopped by a Saudi man as she tried to flee the area near the northwestern town of Hail, ‘Sabq’ daily said.

It said the Saudi man, a resident of that neighbourhood, seized the maid and phoned the police after noticing blood stains on her clothes.

The paper quoted police as saying the maid confessed to killing the woman just a few hours before she was to leave Saudi Arabia.

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