MAKKAH: A Chinese laborer working on the Mashaer Railway Project died on Monday after a concrete block fell on him, said Maj. Abdul Mohsen Al-Mayman, spokesman for Makkah police. The accident occurred while a crane was unloading heavy material from a truck. Investigations are underway. Once legal procedures are completed, the man’s body will either be buried in the Kingdom or repatriated to China as per his relatives’ wishes.
 

MAKKAH: A 30-year-old mentally deranged Saudi youth stabbed two police officers leaving them seriously wounded in Makkah on Monday. The two officers, who are receiving treatment at city’s Noor Hospital, were called by the youth’s father who complained that he was attacking neighbors and annoying worshipers at a local mosque. The youth had recently fled from a mental hospital in Taif. The young man was later overpowered by relatives and taken to a mental hospital in Makkah.
 

RIYADH: Police arrested two Saudi men who are suspected of robbing two refrigerators, a vacuum cleaner, a projector and a modem from a girls’ school in Solail town, Riyadh, on Monday. The two men are unemployed and had been arrested for similar crimes in the past.