Report: Egyptian gets death for killing Pinay wife

An Egyptian man who stabbed his Filipina wife to death at least 31 times in Kuwait last year has been sentenced to death, a Middle East-based news site reported late Thursday. According to a Gulf News report, a court found the killing of victim Norhaisa Nasa Andao by Attalla Mohammad was "premeditated." According to case documents cited in the report, Mohammad was upset with Andao, 32 and a native of Cotabato, for taking their three children — two girls and one boy — to the Philippines, and leaving them in the care of relatives in Cotabato, before she returned to Kuwait and filed for divorce. On the day of the murder on July 17, 2010, Mohammad went to the salon in Jabriya where the victim worked and asked to speak with her privately. (See: 2 Pinays brutally killed in Kuwait in two separate incidents) Following a 10-minute conversation, he took out a knife and stabbed her 31 times in front of shocked clients and workers before fleeing. The Egyptian was later arrested. A watchman of the building where the salon is located said the victim Andao was always fighting with her husband and "everybody at the salon was aware of their constant arguments." He said that the killer used to visit the salon frequently to take his wife and their three children to picnics until their relationship soured. Andao had filed a complaint against her husband for his violent behavior some two weeks before the murder, the witness added. Despite at least three reported cases of murder of Filipina workers there, Kuwait was earlier classified by the Department of Foreign Affairs as among the 10 countries initially identified as OFW destination countries where the rights and welfare of migrant workers are protected. (See: Kuwait, 9 other countries safe for OFWs, says DFA) According to latest government records, more than 20,000 Filipinos are currently working in Kuwait, mostly as domestic and production-related workers.—JMA/JV, GMANews.TV