In an apparent dispute over food, an expatriate worker killed a colleague and injured four others when he attacked them with a knife in Rabigh on Wednesday, according to the police.
“The police received information that a Sudanese worker attacked five others on Wednesday,” said Aati Al-Qurashi, spokesman for Makkah police. He said officers arrested the man and an investigation is under way.
The workers are all employees of a supermarket near Al-Naqeel Hospital in Rabigh, which is 100 km from Jeddah. They share accommodation and cook together.
According to a source, the Sudanese man came home from the supermarket late on Wednesday afternoon and discovered that the other workers had eaten up all the food.
A heated argument ensued, with the man taking a knife and stabbing his colleagues, the source said. The Indian man died and his Sudanese colleague is in a critical condition at a local hospital. The other three stab victims are two Sudanese and an Egyptian. The Indian expatriate was declared dead at Rabigh General Hospital, said Abdullah Shamrani, director of the hospital.
There are rumors that the Sudanese man who was critically injured also died on Thursday but this could not be verified. The victim worked with his father in the vegetable section of the market, sources said.
Abdul Mannan, a Bangladeshi shop worker, who has been working in Jeddah for the past 26 years, said fights are common among workers living together.
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