Family of 5 killed in Salmiya blaze; Jleeb fire kills toddler
Jleeb fire leaves toddler dead
Human trafficking network busted
KUWAIT: A family of five died in a fire that broke out in a five-storey building in Salmiya yesterday, said security sources. Firemen rushed to the building in response to an emergency call and managed to rescue nine people who were trapped behind thick smoke. Eighteen ambulances were dispatched to the scene and they transported the victims to Mubarak Hospital. But five of them, a mother and her four children who were found in critical condition, died before they arrived to the medical facility. Preliminary investigations revealed that the fire started in a fourthfloor apartment, and smoke trapped the Bangladeshi family inside their fifth-floor apartment, while help was too late to get to them. A case was filed for investigation to determine the cause of the fire.
In a similar incident, a two-year-old Arab child died in the hospital shortly after arriving there after being rescued from a burning apartment in Jleeb Al-Shoyoukh. Firemen rushed to the scene and managed to rescue four people who were trapped behind flames and smoke in the second floor. Further investigations are in progress to determine the cause of the fire.
Traffic cases
Ministry of Interior’s relations and security media department said the Interior Ministry’s Acting Assistant Undersecretary for Traffic Affairs Major General Fahad Al-Shuwayye’ met with the President of the Comprehensive Court Chancellor Adel Boresli to discuss cooperation on traffic-related cases and setting a special mechanism to solve around 500,000 accumulated cases in 2017-2018. Both sides agreed that traffic violations and the related verdicts won’t be written off by time.
Inspections
Several inspection campaigns to track down traffic law violators in various governorates were held from October 8-14, which resulted in filing 25,636 citations, impounding 463 vehicles and eight motorbikes, while 24 motorists were arrested for committing severe traffic violations.
Human trafficking
Criminal detectives arrested four people who face human trafficking charges related to holding people against their will and forcing them to practice prostitution. The suspects, a citizen, a bedoon and two Asian nationals, reportedly ran massage parlors in Mahboula and Abu Halifa where they forced human trafficking victims to work for extended hours and to offer sexual services to clients. Police freed 26 Asian men and women who were held against their will by the suspects.
Assault
A man and a woman were arrested after they lured a man into a building’s parking lot in Bneid Al-Qar and beat him up. The victim was treated by paramedics while the couple were taken to Daya police station for questioning. Separately, police are looking for a girl who joined her friends in fighting with a man near the arrival’s gate of Kuwait International Airport, before escaping. The others were taken to Farwaniya Hospital to treat their injuries.