Misery of the housemaids (7)

An unnamed domestic worker died when she fell from the third floor of a residential building in Mecca. Her body was found in the street below on Sunday, Arab News reports.

The woman, whose nationality has not been disclosed, had arrived in Saudi Arabia two months earlier.

A police spokesman said: “The maid was attempting to flee from the sponsor’s family. She sustained fatal head injuries causing her death.”

Posted by Brian Whitaker, 13 April 2010.

UPDATE: Arab News discusses the ill-treatment of maids in the kingdom.

UPDATE, 25 April: Arab News has more details of this case.