Maid beaten to death in Malaysia

Police detained two Malaysian siblings on suspicion of beating their Indonesian maid to death, news reports said, in what would be one of the country's worst cases of domestic worker abuse.

The maid's employers called for emergency aid, Arjunaidi Mohamed, a Kuala Lumpur district police chief, told the national news agency Bernama.

Paramedics found the maid dead in the living room with bruises on her body More than 300,000 Indonesian women are employed as maids in Malaysia.