(MENAFN- The Peninsula)
DOHA: An Asian house maid allegedly drowned a four-month-old baby girl in a washing machine. The family accused the house maid of committing the crime as she ran away from the home after the alleged crime Al Sharq daily reported today.
The police caught the house maid who was on the run from one of the shops at Salwa road.
The family said that the incident happened on Tuesday morning when the mother went for an appointment at Hamad General Hospital and the father was away at work.
The case has been transferred to the concerned authorities and the initial tests attributed the death of the baby to asphyxia.