JEDDAH, 22 October 2003 — A Bangladeshi prisoner in a Jeddah jail committed suicide in his cell, Okaz reported yesterday. The man hanged himself using bed sheets.
Brig. Ahmad Al-Zahrani, director of Jeddah prisons, said an investigation had been launched in order to determine the reasons behind the man’s suicide. According to the Arabic daily, the man was in jail charged with a major crime.
Meanwhile, a 17-year-old expatriate girl in Jeddah committed suicide by hanging herself with a plastic rope. The girl was suffering from psychological problems according to her family.
In Makkah, a young African girl threw herself from the second floor of a residential building after her family refused to let her marry the man she loves. The girl, who suffered a number of broken bones, has threatened to commit suicide if her family refuses to allow her to marry the man.
The Arabic daily also reported that a Sri Lankan maid committed suicide on the balcony of her sponsor’s kitchen.
Another maid attempted to commit suicide by throwing herself from the second floor of her sponsor’s house. She suffered broken bones in the arms and chest.
According to police, the maid had been working for two months and had insisted that she return to her country to see her sick son. The Saudi family said the maid attempted to commit suicide while they were making arrangements to send her home.
In Madinah, a Pakistani expatriate worker died of electric shock while he was trying to fix his fiancee’s photo on the wall, Okaz reported. His friends, who went to his room when he did not come to work, found him dead with his fiancee’s photo lying close to his body.
