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28 March 2024

Maid to be executed for killing Saudi employer

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A Saudi court sentenced an Ethiopian housemaid to death after she was convicted of murdering her local employer with a cleaver, newspapers reported on Tuesday.

The maid was arrested three years ago after she waited for her employer to go to bed and attack him with the cleaver.

She then attacked his teenage son and caused serious injuries to him but he has recovered following treatment at hospital in the Western Red Sea port of Jeddah.