Woman loses her eyesight in brawl

dubai — A woman has been charged in the Court of First Instance with physical assault of another woman and causing her a partial loss of eyesight.

Prosecutors accused the 34-year-old Tunisian woman of physically assaulting the Moroccan woman who shared the same accommodation and causing her a permanent injury.

A complaint was filed at Al Muraqqabat Police Station on September 21 last year. The complainant, a 36-year-old jobless from Morocco, said the incident took place around 12:20am on September 15.

“We were in our accommodation with other girls when a verbal brawl broke out between me and the accused. She suddenly began to punch and slap me all over my body. My right eye got badly hurt.”

The complainant said she was rushed by ambulance to hospital and after getting the necessary treatment, she went to the police station and lodged a complaint.

One of the two women’s flatmates, a Tunisian, 36, said: “I woke up around midnight to loud voices at my place. I went to the living room and saw the victim assaulting the accused, who was lying down. Another woman and I managed to get them away from each other.”

The witness added : “I went back to my room. However, within less than 5 minutes, I heard the same noise again. I went there and saw them fighting and pulling each other’s hair and punching each other. Suddenly, the complainant turned around and screamed that her eye got hurt. Blood was coming out of her eye. We called the police right away.”

Another Tunisian flatmate, 31, said the fight broke out after the accused told the other woman to remove her stuff from her room to which the latter said she would put her belongings wherever she wanted.

According to the forensic report, the complainant was left with a partial eyesight loss of 20 per cent after the assault.

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