BEIRUT: An Ethiopian woman was founded injured after fleeing the home where she had been working in the Koura District just south of Tripoli, the state-run National News Agency reported Wednesday.
According to the report, the worker suffered “breakages” after falling, though details were not provided on how she fell or from what height.
An emergency response team transported the woman to a government-run hospital in Tripoli for treatment. Security forces are investigating the incident, the NNA reported.
There are an estimated 250,000 migrant domestic workers in Lebanon, the majority of them women, according to Human Rights Watch. HRW found in a 2008 study that at least one migrant domestic worker dies per week in Lebanon of non-natural causes. The situation of migrant workers in the country came under renewed public scrutiny last month when an Ethiopian woman in her early twenties fell four stories to her death from the Metn home where she had been working. The case was treated as a suicide.
Human Rights Watch and other organizations have called on Lebanese authorities to address the "high levels of abuse and deaths" of domestic workers in the country. Read more here