Two Sri Lankan women found dead, the mysterious case

A quiet morning in Ali Sabah Al-Salem turned into something far more serious when a Kuwaiti resident made a report that police could not ignore: a woman had died inside a storage room on the rooftop of his house.

Around the same time, in a separate part of the city, another discovery was being made. The body of another woman, also from Sri Lanka, was found in Al-Nahda. Two unrelated reports, in two different areas, both involving women from the same community, and both now under investigation.

Police teams from the Criminal Evidences Department were sent to both locations. Their job now is to piece together what happened in each case, and whether the two deaths are connected to anything criminal, or not connected to each other at all.

What actually happened?

Details remain limited. In the first case, a Kuwaiti national reported finding the woman’s body inside a storage room on the rooftop of his house in Ali Sabah Al-Salem. No information has been released about how long she had been there, her age, or her relationship to the household.

In the second case, in Al-Nahda, a woman’s body was found, but the report gives no further detail about where exactly, who found her, or when.

The Criminal Evidences Department, the police unit responsible for collecting evidence at crime scenes, has taken over both cases. Officers have not said whether the two incidents are linked, and nothing in the report suggests they are connected beyond both victims being Sri Lankan nationals.

This comes at a time when Kuwait has also been dealing with other cases involving foreign residents, including an earlier hotel raid that led to detentions and a separate case involving a woman accused of using children in a drug case in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh.

Why does this need forensic investigation?

Both bodies have been referred to the Forensic Medicine Department. Forensic doctors will carry out examinations to determine how each woman died, and whether there is any sign of foul play.

This step is standard procedure whenever a death happens outside a hospital or under circumstances that are not immediately clear. Until the forensic report comes back, investigators cannot say whether either death was natural, accidental, or the result of a crime.

No suspects have been named in either case. The report does not say whether anyone has been detained or questioned in connection with either death.

What this means for people living in Kuwait

For Kuwait’s Sri Lankan community, and for domestic workers and their employers more broadly, this is the kind of story that raises uncomfortable questions until the facts are clear. Two deaths reported on the same day, in two unconnected parts of the city, naturally invite speculation. But at this stage, nothing confirms a link between the cases, and nothing confirms criminal activity in either one.

For employers and sponsors, cases like this are a reminder that any unexplained death in a household, including in staff quarters or storage areas, must be reported to police immediately. Delaying a report, or trying to handle it privately, can create legal problems even when no wrongdoing has occurred.

You can follow more local news from Kuwait as this story develops and more details come out.

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