Escaping maid dies in fall from Saudi building

An Indonesian housemaid was killed on Thursday when she fell while tried to escape from a third-floor apartment in Saudi Arabia, a local newspaper said on Friday.

The maid used clothes tied to each other in her escape attempt through the window from the flat in the western port of Jeddah after she learned her original employer would come and get her, Okaz Arabic language daily reported.

The unnamed maid had absconded from her employer in the northwestern town of Hail and worked for the owner of the flat in Jeddah, the paper said.

“The main tried to escape when she learned that her employer was coming to take her back to his house…she tried to escape and died as a result,” said Lt. Naif Al-Wafidi, a police spokesman in Jeddah.

He said the maid’s body would be transferred to the Forensic Medicine Administration to determine whether there are injuries other than those caused by the fall.

“If it is confirmed that there was no foul play involved, an official letter will be sent to her country’s consulate in preparation for her burial.”

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