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Bengali domestic worker found hanged in South Lebanon

Name of domestic worker: 
Freda Davhin
Nationality: 
Bangladesh
Date of death: 
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Cause of death: 
Suicide
Location's classification: 
Home/Private location

A Bengali domestic worker was found hanged Wednesday morning in a south Lebanon town in an apparent suicide, security sources said.

Freda Davhin was found hanged from a tree in the backyard of a house in the southern town of Harouf, owned by Lebanese Ahmad Dadi, the sources said.

Davhin was working as a domestic worker at the Dadi residence, the sources said.

It is likely she committed suicide, the security sources added.

An investigation into the incident is under way.