12-year-old killed in hit-and-run
Capital detectives are looking for a person who ran over and killed a 12-year-old child in northwest Sulaibkhat and escaped. Paramedics who arrived to the scene with police in response to an emergency call said that the child succumbed to his injuries onsite. The body was recovered by the forensic department.
Suspected suicide
The body of a Nepalese woman was recovered by the coroner, after she allegedly committed suicide. Ahmadi prosecutor went to the scene to investigate whether the case was actually a suicide or homicide. The room where the housemaid lived inside her sponsor’s house was locked from the inside and the door was broken. The dead woman’s sponsor said he hired her several days before from an office in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh.
Thieves caught
Farwaniya detectives solved three cases of armed robbery in addition to a car theft, when three Egyptians caught an armed person in a Rihab co-op society branch with a hunting air rifle. The suspect told about his accomplice and confessed to three thefts in Farwaniya and Omariya co-op society branch, as well as an attempted robbery and stealing a car.
Harasser deported
A security source said Director General of Farwaniya Security Maj Gen Saleh Al-Enezi sent a memo to Interior Ministry Assistant Undersecretary for General Security Maj Gen Ibrahim Al-Tarrah asking for the deportation of an Arab man accused of harassment. The suspect was caught red handed touching sensitive parts of women, then apologized, claiming it was an accident. Citizens and expat women complained about the man who was caught while harassing an Arab woman.
Smuggling foiled
Customs officers foiled an attempt to smuggle 14,000 Captagon tablets that were hidden in the upper vent of a truck coming from Iraq. The estimated value of the tablets is around KD 32,000.
Fights
A Sudanese man suffered serious injuries and had to be admitted inside the intensive care unit following a fight in Wafra farms. Meanwhile, the person who caused the fight, a Ugandan national, was detained in Wafra police station. In another fight, a Bangladeshi man sustained a broken arm as police is looking for the suspect. Both cases were sent to concerned authorities.
Bootlegger held
Criminal detectives arrested a man who has been active in trading in imported liquor. Detectives received tips about a man trading in liquor, so they went to his address with a warrant to raid his house. They found there a large quantity of liquor, which he confessed belonged to him. — Translated from the Arabic press