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Saudi Authorities Arrest Killers of Yemeni Women

Yemen Observer Newspaper

Apr 11, 2005

SANA'A Saudi security authorities arrested on Wednesday, March 30 the suspected killers of three Yemeni women in Taif of Saudi Arabia. 
Five Ethiopians were arrested by the Saudi police for killing a 70-year-old Yemeni woman, her 40-year-old daughter-in-law, and four-year-old granddaughter 

According to Mohammed Al-Hajiri, the brother of the 40-year-old housewife, the Taif police "informed us of the results of the investigations which convicted that the criminals hold Ethiopian nationality." 

One of the arrested has already pleaded guilty while the other suspects said they would plead guilty next Saturday and reconstruct the scene of the crime in the house of the victims. 

Investigations revealed that the robbers killed their victims to loot the house and are part of a gang that is responsible for the killing of a 60-year-old woman in Al-Qamariya neighborhood and another Sudanese woman in Al-Salama neighborhood.


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