JEDDAH, 9 June 2007 — Police are investigating the death of a pregnant Somali woman, whose body was found in a street opposite an old apartment bloc in the Dakik neighborhood of Jeddah, according to Al-Madinah newspaper.
Police, having received a telephone call from a member of the public, cordoned off the area where the young woman’s body was found in order to collect evidence.
The woman, aged in her 20s, is thought to have been experiencing some domestic problems with her husband, also a Somali national, who she had secretly married without her family’s knowledge.
No one knew about the marriage except for the woman’s sister, said police, adding that the woman was trying to contact her husband, who did not want anything to do with her.
A female resident of the building in front of which the body was found said she heard a man speaking tensely on the telephone.
She also added that she heard a man in a nearby apartment talking about how a woman had killed herself outside and that she saw some men running away before the police arrived.
