Saudi executes Ethiopian for murdering a child

Riyadh : Saudi Arabia on Monday executed an Ethiopian woman convicted of killing a Saudi child, the interior ministry said.

Zamzam Abdullah Boric was put to death in Riyadh after being found guilty.

Boric cut the girl's throat "and left her in the bathroom until she died", the ministry said, without giving a motive for the crime or stating the Ethiopian's occupation.

Ethiopians are among the millions of expatriates employed in the oil-rich kingdom. Many work as domestic helpers.

Saudi Arabia has a strict Islamic legal code under which murder, drug trafficking, armed robbery, rape and apostasy are all punishable by death.