Jakarta, Indonesia (CNN) -- A Saudi Arabian employer allegedly killed an Indonesian maid and dumped her body in a trash container, Indonesian authorities said Friday.
The incident comes as another maid is recovering after she was severely beaten by her Saudi employer.
"We have confirmed that our national, an Indonesian, Kikim Komalasari, has died due to the ill-treatment of her by her employers in the town of Abha," Indonesian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Michael Tene told CNN about the latest incident. "We have expressed our condemnation of this hideous act by her employers to the Saudi Arabian authorities".
However, presidential spokesman Teuku Faizasyah said officials have not definitively determined how the maid died.
The employer suspected in the latest attack has been taken into custody and is being questioned by Saudi police, Tene said. The Indonesian consulate in Jeddah also sent an officer to the Saudi town of Abhha to look into the matter.
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