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By mandeep singh
manama: A maid and her sponsor were being questioned last night after she claimed her employer physically assaulted her. Ethiopian Mareshet Agme Beti, 22, was brought to the Budaiya police station by members of the Migrant Workers' Protection Society (MWPS).

She alleged she was so badly beaten by her sponsor, an Arab national, that she attempted suicide on at least three occasions.

The sponsor denied the allegations and claimed all the wounds on the maid's body were self-inflicted. The maid had never been treated badly, he said.

The sponsor further claimed that the maid, who had come to Bahrain barely 10 weeks ago, had been acting strangely for the last few weeks and tried to kill herself.

The maid said she ran away late yesterday after her sponsor asked her to "go away". She went to a British neighbour who called the MWPS.

An MWPS official said "we will try and ensure she does not undergo any more distress".

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