The man took his three children to an isolated room so he could kill his wife without them watching. The wife, with no power to defend herself, was left with no choice but to scream for help.

Just as the husband was about to hang her, his father broke the apartment door down and stormed in to rescue her. The husband works at a private sector company in Makkah.

According to relatives, the man has suffered from depression in the past year that has changed his behavior completely.

Some of the family members blamed his bad nature on black magic. The wife is now staying with her family with the newly born daughter.

According to relatives however, the husband tried to kill her again and take the child when her family was not at home. They added that he sometimes makes threatening phone calls to her. They said the wife is still in a bad state because her two sons, aged four and five, are hidden somewhere with their father.

“She is crying all the time over the fate of her two kids. The husband monitors the house and waits until we leave for work so he can come by and knock on the door. I had to leave work many times just to guard her,” said one of her relatives.

The family finally decided to file a complaint at Al-Kaakiya police station to put an end to the husband’s reign of terror. An official source for Makkah police said investigations are going on.