MAKKAH — A Pakistani worker who confessed to stabbing his colleague to death on Tuesday at Umm Al-Qura University in Makkah said he did so because his victim's face haunted him. The man, identified as 40-year-old Farouq, was reported to have told Al-Aziziya police that he killed his victim because every time he looked at his face he saw "a ferocious animal” that wanted to eat him alive. He said he waited for the right chance to kill him. The man grabbed a knife and stabbed the victim three times in his neck and chest. Investigators decided to refer him to the local mental health hospital for a psychiatric examination. The decision was made following reports that Farouq had taken drugs for mental conditions for some time in Pakistan before coming to the Kingdom. After the murder, Farouq tried to flee the scene but three other workers apprehended him and handed him over to the police after they saw the 39-year-old victim lying in a pool of blood in his room at the workers' compound inside the university. Three Pakistani workers and an Egyptian man gave the same account of the crime. One of them said Farouq and the victim did not hold any grudge against each other and seemed to be getting along well when they were living together in the same room.
