Saudi Arabia: Carpenter in gruesome hammer attack on ex-wife

Abu Dhabi: A Chadian carpenter,29, killed his ex-wife with a hammer after she refused to take him back, Saudi media reported.

The incident took place in the Ghalil neighborhood, south of Jeddah.

The victim, Munira, 28, was called for a reconciliation meet after a two-month separation. The former lovers had a child together, Okaz reported.

The victim agreed to meet. But, after a short conversation, the man became angry and smashed his ex-wife’s head against a wall, then smashed her head with a hammer, police said.

He kept hitting her until she died, police said.

After regaining his composure, the man hurried to inform his mother of what had happened. She worked to remedy the situation by informing a pillar of the Chadian community, who passed the information onto police.

Police went to the crime scene seized the hammer, and arrested the perpetrator, who did not try to justify his crime. Adam Omar, a relative of the victim, told Okaz the crime had shaken the Chadian community.

“The innocent victim went out to meet her ex-husband to fix what was destroyed between them, after the husband continued to procrastinate in fulfilling his obligations. Two months before their divorce, he was dismissed from his work as a carpenter in a construction project for lack of discipline and carelessness,” Omar said.