Maid pours boiling water on Saudi baby

An Ethiopian housemaid poured boiling water on a six-month-old Saudi girl, causing her to scream and bring her father rushing to save her.

Imad Al Anzi was in his bedroom at their house in the capital Riyadh when he heard his daughter Alia crying incessantly in the bathroom.

“I rushed to the bathroom and found that the maid opened the hot water tap and left it running on my daughter, causing severe burns all over her body,” he said.

He told Arar Arabic language newspaper he had the maid arrested while his daughter was still undergoing treatment.

The incident came a day before Saudi Arabia announced it was halting the hiring of Ethiopian housemaids following a string of deadly attacks on their employer’s children.

More than two million domestic helpers work in Saudi Arabia, mostly from Indonesia, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Ethiopia.


 
Drowned woman found with help of shoe

A 35-year-old Saudi woman died after she drowned in sewage pit near her house in the Gulf Kingdom and relatives knew of her death after seeing her floating shoe.

The woman’s family had reported her missing for two days, prompting an extensive search operation by the police and the civil defence.

“Her brother who passed near the sewage pit by chance saw his sister’s shoe floating on the water…he alerted civil defence divers, who went into the water and plucked the body,” Sabq daily said in a report from the western Saudi town of Taif.
 

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