Police denied rumours of the murder of eight women in an apartment in Sharjah

Sharjah: The Sharjah Police are denying the deaths of eight women, suspected to have been poisoned by a woman.

Ethiopian consulate sources yesterday told Gulf News that the eight illegal housemaids were poisoned by a compatriot maid, who has been held in Sharjah Central Jail.

The incident, the sources said, took place last Wednesday. The women were staying together in an apartment in Abu Shagara.

The sources said police informed them of the incident, but refused to reveal the motive behind it, saying investigations were continuing.

Sharjah Police told Gulf News that the report was baseless.

"These are just rumours," a police official said.

According to the consulate sources, the bodies of the eight women were transferred to Al Kuwait Hospital and Al Qasimi Hospital.

Al Kuwait Hospital denied the issue, saying no bodies were brought to the morgue.

"They could have been sent to the forensic laboratory," a hospital official said.

No bodies were taken to Al Qasimi Hospital either, doctors there said.