E-Kantipur

DOHA (QATAR), DEC 24 - A government hospital at Saudi Arabia’s capital city Riyadh recently received bodies of two females believed to be of Nepali migrant workers.

Although Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Ministry claimed the deceased were the Nepali nationals, the hospital found no documents to ascertain their identities or the address of their employers.

The ministry has asked the Nepali Embassy here to fly the bodies to Nepal. The embassy, however, wants that identities of the two women were established before taking any action.

“We have not received any documents about them. We know neither their names nor the place they belong to,” said Khadga Prasad Dahal, the embassy’s first secretary.

Although the Nepal government prohibits women from going to the Gulf countries for employment, women job aspirants reach the Gulf via India with help of unscrupulous agents.

Voices have been raised from different quarters since long that Nepal asked India to stop Nepali women’s trafficking to Gulf countries through its land, but such concerns have fallen to deaf ears.

Meanwhile, 15 female Nepali migrant workers who had illegally entered Saudi Arabia returned home on Wednesday following numerous hurdles there. The embassy reported 27 others are also in the process of returning home.

Posted on: 2009-12-24 08:24

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