Lankan maid kills herself after six days in Kingdom
Md. Rasooldeen; 3/7/08
A Sri Lankan maid committed suicide here six days after her arrival in the Saudi capital, her country’s embassy said yesterday. The woman of the house found Fathima Fazmila, 24, hanging from a noose made by her sari tied to a ceiling fan, according to the embassy. “Ever since she came the maid looked sick and we were trying to make her feel at home since this was the first time she left home,” said Abdulaziz Al-Khereiji, her sponsor. Fazmila, who arrived in the Kingdom on June 14, reportedly told her sponsor that she was recently divorced.
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Tags: Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka