TODDLER SURVIVES SLAUGHTER ATTEMPT

SHAWQ NEARLY SLAUGHTERED BY HER BROTHER

A toddler aged 18 months in Saudi Arabia has barely survived a killing attempt by her brother who was influenced by slaughtering scenes he had just witnessed at a sheep abattoir.

The boy, aged three, had accompanied his father to the slaughterhouse in the Naseem neighbourhood in the Saudi capital Riyadh where he saw how sheep were slaughtered.

When he returned home, he seemingly wanted to apply the same process with his sister, Shawq, took a knife from the kitchen and tried to slaughter her, local news site Sabq reported on Sunday.

Shawq was rescued by the parents and the father took her to a local hospital where she was treated.

The father said that he had a guest at his home and decided to buy meat for the occasion. He took his son with him to buy a sheep and afterwards to the abattoir.

“As we were waiting for our turn, my son was standing with me and he saw how workers slaughtered sheep and skinned them,” the father said.

“When we returned home, we were shocked to discover that he attacked his young sister and stabbed her in the chest and the neck in an imitation of what he had seen at the abattoir. Blood was coming out so profusely from Shawq that we panicked and we took her to hospital,” he said.