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28 March 2024

Maid beats up 80-year-old GCC female employer

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An Ethiopian housemaid went berserk and beat up her 80-year-old Saudi female employer, inflicting severe injuries and sending her unconscious to hospital.

The assault by the 25-year-old maid in the western Saudi town of Madinah was the latest in a series of deadly attacks by Ethiopian domestic workers against their employers in the Gulf Kingdom, where nearly two million maids from Asia and Africa work.

Police said they arrested the maid after she fled her employer’s home and are interrogating her to know her motives for the attack.

“I don’t know why she did so. My mother treated her very nicely and loved her as a daughter,” the woman’s son Fawaz Al Harbi said, adding that his mother was still unconscious at the intensive care unit on Monday night.

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