Wednesday, February 22, 2012

OH MADINAH

Saudi man stabs wife to death in Madinah

By YOUSUF MUHAMMAD | ARAB NEWS

MADINAH: A Saudi young man has been arrested for stabbing his wife to death in the Al-Aqeeq region in Madinah province.

Police in Al-Aqeeq arrested the 38-year-old man, who confessed to the crime. The man said he was intoxicated when he committed the murder.

Al-Aqeeq police received information about the murder from the Madinah police operations room on Tuesday morning.

When the criminal investigation wing of Al-Aqeeq police and forensic surgeons reached the scene, they found the body of the young woman lying in a pool of blood, according to Madinah police spokesman Col. Fahd Al-Ghanam.

The woman’s body was shifted to King Fahd Hospital to carry out an autopsy to determine the real cause of death, he said. Al-Aqeeq police has referred the case to the Prosecution and Investigation Commission for further investigations.

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