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29 March 2024

Child pushed by maid on hot milk is dead

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A four-year-old Saudi boy pushed by an Ethiopian housemaid on a boiling milk pot has died at hospital because of severe burns, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.

The boy was admitted to hospital in the northern town of Skaka on Sunday night with severe burns to his body and head and died at dawn on Monday, Sabq said, quoting police spokesman Brigadier Daman Al Diraan.

Police arrested the maid on Sunday after the boy’s father reported the incident, the latest in a string of deadly assaults by Ethiopian maids on their employer’s children.

Saudi Arabia, home to more than two million domestic servants, said last week it was halting the recruitment of Ethiopian housemaids.