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Housemaid accused of stabbing kids because employer blocked holiday

Maid stabbed child due to holiday being blocked
Maid stabbed child due to holiday being blocked

A housemaid has been arrested after an Emirati girl and her two brothers were stabbed in a frenzied attack.

A Dubai Police CID source said officers received an emergency call on Friday from the brothers asking for help after they locked themselves in a bathroom at their villa to escape the attack.

Officers went to the villa in Al Warqa, where they found a lot of blood.

“We found the body of the Ethiopian maid on the ground. Then we heard the voices of the three children from the bathroom,” a police official said. “They were in critical condition and were bleeding. We rushed them to hospital.”

The parents were away from the villa when the incident happened. Police said the maid had attempted to commit suicide by cutting her wrist. During questioning she said she attacked the children because of bad treatment by her employers. She claimed they hadn’t paid her salary and refused to let her leave to visit her home country.

“She waited until the parents left at night and the children went to bed. She took a knife and first stabbed the 16-year-old daughter, who was sleeping in the room with her 14-year-old sister.

“Their 12-year-old brother woke up and she chased him and stabbed him. The children managed to escape to the bathroom,” the official said. Police said the maid had worked with the family for more than a year and the parents denied any kind of abuse.

The maid was charged with attempted murder and attempted suicide.

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