Beaten Egyptian not charged with attempted murder

KUWAIT: Judicial sources yesterday denied reports claiming that attempted murder

charges were pressed against an Egyptian man who was hospitalized after he was beaten up badly in a Shuwaikh industrial area shop recently, noting that the case is so far classified as a fight. This came in response to reports circulated on Tuesday and accusing the Egyptian man, identified as Waheed Mahmoud, of starting the fight by insulting the Kuwaiti citizen and hitting him with a screwdriver. “The public prosecutor has not decided yet on this case,” stressed the sources, noting that the Capital attorney Fahd Al-Awadh only received the case file yesterday from Shuwaikh industrial area investigators accompanied with medical reports about the injuries. The sources added that the public prosecution will decide the charges against both of them. The citizen will be interrogated by the public prosecutor today, while the Egyptian is

expected to be interrogated on Sunday.

Recruitment conditions

The Manpower Public Authority has set regulations and conditions for recruitment in 20 professions, well-informed sources said. The sources added that an agreement was made with the Ministry of Education (MoE) that it would only hire employees who pass a test set by the authority. The authority stressed that it received job applications from 260 special needs teachers, 110 assistant teachers, 15 special needs social workers and 20 psychiatrists over the past six months and 200 of them were hired. The sources also noted that the authority received 30 applications from mechanics, automobile electricians, painters and cooks, and 15 of them matched the set conditions.