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29 March 2024

Maid chases Saudi family with cleaver

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An Ethiopian housemaid chased a Saudi woman and her three children with a cleaver trying to kill her six-year-old daughter but the mother escaped after she locked herself up in the bed room, a Saudi newspaper reported on Sunday.

Neighbours and passers-by rushed into the woman’s house in the eastern town of Qateef after hearing her screaming for help.
Although they surrounded the maid and tried to overpower her, she lunged at them and threatened them with the cleaver.

“Finally police arrived and overpowered the maid.
“The Saudi woman told them the maid tried to kill her six-year-old daughter but she managed to escape to the other room with her three children,”

Alwatan Arabic language daily said without making clear why the maid tried to murder that child.

The incident came a day after another Ethiopian maid murdered a 10-year-old Syrian girl in Riyadh, saying she committed the crime after she was told so by an occult power.