Asian leaves country without returning rented car

Embassy seeks police help

By Munaif Nayef

KUWAIT CITY, Aug 22: An Asian expatriate managed to leave the country without returning a car that he rented from a car-rental office in Ardiya more than one month ago.

According to security sources, the car was found in a yard in Abu Halifa area.

A case has been registered against the expatriate.

Drugs with Kuwaiti:

A Kuwaiti citizen in his 20s was arrested for driving under narcotic influence and possessing drugs and narcotic pills in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh area.

According to security sources, when the Operations Room of Ministry of Interior received information about an accident in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh area, securitymen rushed to the location and discovered that one of the motorists is a Kuwaiti citizen who was in a disoriented state. They checked him and found sachets of methamphetamine (Shabew), Chemical drug and narcotic pills as well as some money.

He was arrested and referred with the confiscated drugs to the Drugs Control General Department for necessary legal action.

Envoy seeks help:

The Ethiopian Ambassador to Kuwait Abdul Fattah Hassan said the embassy sought the help of the local police to refer an unidentified Ethiopian woman to the Psychiatric Hospital after the woman refused to go for treatment and instead threatened to jump from the first floor of the embassy premises, reports Al-Rai daily.

The ambassador said the woman suffering from mental illness became hysterical and had to be controlled by the embassy staff after she refused to go for treatment.

The daily did not give more details.