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Body of 23-year-old Indonesian woman found in suitcase in Saudi Arabia
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he body of a 23-year-old Indonesian woman was found in a suitcase in Mina, Mecca province, Saudi Arabia, on Friday, prompting a joint investigation between the kingdom and the Indonesian government, an Indonesian official has said.
Indonesian Foreign Ministry citizen protection director Judha Nugraha said in a statement issued on Monday that local police had since arrested two Indonesian nationals suspected of having been involved in the death of the woman, identified only as A, based on a tip-off from the Indonesian Embassy in Jeddah.
He went on to say that the preliminary postmortem report had found no external injuries on the body and that an autopsy was required to determine the cause of death.
“The next steps taken by the Foreign Ministry and the Indonesian Embassy in Jeddah will be to contact A’s family and provide legal assistance to the two arrested Indonesian citizens,” Judha said, adding that the embassy would also help return the body to Indonesia at the family’s behest.
As reported by Gulf News on Sunday, the Mecca Attorney General’s Office had received documents pertaining to the case.
At the time of writing, Saudi authorities had yet to officially comment on the case.
