Saudi Gazette report MAKKAH — Police are investigating a 25-year-old Saudi national who brought his wife in a critical condition to a private clinic in the Al-Nawariyah district of Makkah Thursday morning just before she died. There were bruises all over the woman's body and the clinic referred her to Hira General Hospital, but she died before an ambulance could take her, Makkah Daily reported. The hospital informed Al-Taneem Police Station of the death. However, the husband had escaped from the scene before police arrived. The officers grew suspicious and they launched a search. He was arrested within a few hours of his escape. A security source said criminal investigation teams inspected the couple's house and found signs of violence, including broken doors and torn clothes. They also found the couple's three-month-old girl alone in the house. She was handed over to relatives. The source added that the bruises and other marks found on the woman's body indicated violence and evidence found in the couple's house confirmed the suspicions. Al-Watan daily reported that the National Society for Human Rights in Makkah is following up the case. The supervisor of the NSHR office in the Makkah region, Sulaiman Al-Zaidi, said the man was suspected of using force against his wife. He hit her hard fatally injuring her and he took her to the clinic, he said. Al-Zaidi demanded of the authorities concerned to enforce strict regulations against perpetrators of domestic violence and all human rights violators. Abdulwahab Shalabi, a spokesman for Makkah Health Affairs, said the woman was pronounced dead on arrival at Hira General Hospital. The body is being kept in King Faisal Hospital's morgue, he added.
