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29 March 2024

Man kills stranger to ‘get rid of evil spirits’

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A Saudi drug addict in his 30s went into a shop, dragged an Indian worker out and stabbed him to death many times, claiming he wanted to get rid of evil spirits.

Panicking passers-by watched with horror as the Saudi stabbed the Indian worker while chanting “God is Great” in the middle of the road in the capital Riyadh.

Police said the unnamed killer already had been convicted of taking drugs, having alcoholic drinks and abusing his parents.

“We [are] interrogating him and he said that he kept seeing evil spirits,” Riyadh police spokesman Colonel Fawaz Al Miman said, quoted by local newspapers.

“He told us that he had just gone out of his house when he imagined evil spirits in front of him…he then went back home, got a knife and went straight to a nearby grocery…there he dragged an Indian worker out and stabbed him to death.”

Eye witnesses said scores of people watched with horror as the Saudi was stabbing the victim like a “sheep”, adding that they could not interfere after the killer threatened them.

“Witnesses told us that the killer was chanting ‘God is Great’ with every stab until he made sure the man was dead.”