Jeddah, Apr 13 (Emirates 247) : An Ethiopian housemaid waited for her Saudi female employer to kneel down for morning prayers and hit her with an axe on the head several times.
The woman’s son, who works at the police station, was returning home from work when he found his dying mother lying in a pool of blood.
He carried her to the car and rushed to hospital in the western town of Taif but she died on the way, newspapers said.
Police said the woman, wife of an education ministry official, was hit eight times by the axe while she was praying. The maid fled the house but was later arrested.
Sabq newspaper said the maid could have committed the murder for theft but added police were still interrogating her.