Car catches fire outside Jahra Hospital

Firefighters extinguished a blaze that engulfed a vehicle outside the Jahra Hospital yesterday morning. No injuries were reported in the incident. A case was filed for investigations to determine the cause of the fire.

Thief caught

The Capital criminal investigations detectives arrested an Arab man for robbery, said security sources, noting that along with a compatriot, the suspect had stolen two safes from a private company. The sources added that one of the two suspects, who used to work for the company, was arrested while attempting to leave the country, while the other had already left and is being summoned by Interpol. The suspect confessed, telling detectives that after stealing the two safes, they took them to a desert area where they broke them open and split their contents.

Crackdown

Within its pre-Ramadan inspection campaign, Mubarak Al-Kabeer municipality inspectors toured a number of co-ops, foodstuff stores and warehouses and restaurants, examining all food items and cleanliness, said team leader Nasser AlHajri. He said the campaign resulted in confiscating and destroying three tons of inedible and expired foodstuff items, closing down a warehouse and filing four citations involving selling expired foodstuff and operating without a license.