Ibrahim Alawi

Okaz/Saudi Gazette

JEDDAH – A 42-year-old Burmese national surrendered to security authorities in Makkah on Wednesday after killing his wife and four daughters, police said.



Lt. Gen. Atti Al-Qurashi, spokesman for the Makkah Province police, said a citizen had informed the Al-Muntazahat police station in south Jeddah of the cold-blooded murder at the residence of his Burmese employee.



The Saudi said he received a call from his employee, informing him that he had killed his wife and children.



The employer went to his worker’s residence in the Kilo 14 neighborhood to verify the information. When nobody answered the door, he called police.



Police with the help of Civil Defense rescuers broke open the door and found the bodies in a pool of blood.



The woman in her 30s and her daughters, aged 1 to 5, were stabbed several times with a sharp tool.



After the crime, the man went to Makkah and offered Isha and Maghreb prayers at the Grand Mosques before giving himself up to the Holy Haram Police and confessed to the crime. He was taken into custody.



The man gave the officers his residential address and his sponsor’s telephone number.



During questioning, Lt. Col. Al-Qurashi said, it was discovered the man had been suffering from severe psychiatric problems.



In his statement to the police, the man said he had hallucinations that he would die soon and his five-member family would suffer alone in his absence.



“I love my wife and children very much and I don’t want them to suffer. Therefore, I killed them and I will join them,” he said.